[Gta04-owner] Impressions from running Replicant

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le jeudi 04 juillet 2013 à 11:49 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller a
écrit :
> It appears that it has been synced upstream! At least my last repo sync
> did complain about a kernel and device tree conflict. After deleting the
> manually inserted trees I could sync and got the gta04 components.

Well, I'm actually right in the middle of it and didn't check that all
components build already. This should be completed within the hour.

I also updated the Replicant wiki for Replicant 4.0:
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GTA04Build
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GTA04Installation

After building all the targets, the install script and the images will
be found at out/target/product/gta04

> And now I even succeeded to compile the (I know not good working) kernel.
> The 'make systemtarball' is still running with thousands of warnings.

I decided to put the 3.0 kernel as default here so that the device can
be booted and give an idea of what Replicant 4.0 looks like on gta04.

About the warnings, well, not every developer cares about solving these.
But as long as there's no error, things should be fine.

> I had to apply some tweaks to compile it on Darwin (MacOS X). Mainly
> it needs a -printf friendly find, a -r friendly sed and a elf.h source file. This
> is not big magic, but some :) I am collecting every piece of information
> so that I think I can share some blueprint for a build-on-mac-script soon.

Well, we only maintain build instructions for GNU/Linux (and it seems
that only x86_64 works with 4.0) so for the rest… you're on your own :)

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer

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