[Gta04-owner] Strategy to upgrade neil-plus kernel to 3.10

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi all,
I finally succeeded with the first steps.

Am 20.07.2013 um 23:21 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:

> Hi Neil,
> 
> Am 20.07.2013 um 16:44 schrieb Neil Jerram:
> 
>> "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> after all the recent discussions about the best kernel for Replicant I think we should
>>> focus on getting all the latest kernel developments of mainline into the neil-plus kernel.
>>> 
>>> I.e. rebase it to 3.10.1.
>>> 
>> So perhaps what you want is:
>> 
>>   git checkout e70712bb
>>   git checkout -b hw-mainline
>>   git rebase --onto f4fee72a ea6d1b4e
> 
> So it will be some hours of work, but appears doable.

I finally went through the git rebase which was really just some hours.

A lot of more work was to get it compiling without errors again. There are some header
files that have moved around and some functions have changed (mostly in the display
driver). And some have significantly changed (e.g. how the /proc file system works).

Therefore it is known that the camera and the PVR SGX code is broken.

But now the code base compiles without errors. Yeah!

Unfortunately the kernel immediately reboots the GTA04...

So there are still a lot of things to be debugged until we have a working 3.10
kernel. Some of them are documented in

http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/issues/442/

The kernel tree is here:

http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/neil-3.10-plus

-- hns

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