[Gta04-owner] gta04-kernel: updated to 3.19-rc1

Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller hns at goldelico.com
Sun Dec 21 15:09:15 CET 2014


Hi,
Linus has published 3.19-rc1 and I have merged it (and fixed some minor
conflicts - nothing significant).

Code is here:

	http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/3.19-rc1

The most notable changes with GTA04 influence in 3.19:
* something in the V4L2 has changed so that our camera driver didn’t compile any
   more - but it isn’t working anyways since we miss the OMAP3-ISP configs in the
   DT. There was a patch some time ago for the ISP DT support but I have not
   checked if it is already in 3.19.
* the 802.11-wireless extensions have been removed. This means the “iwconfig”
   command will fail (even if you see the wlan0 interface in ifconfig -a) because
   there is no kernel support any more [1]
* something changed with CONFIG_ANDROID which we have to experiment with
* there is a CONFIG_SND_OMAP_SOC_RX51 which might be the entry point to
   a blueprint how to handle GTA04 sound (RX51 is N900 with same CPU)

The kernel basically works with Debian Jessie (incl. WLAN) and I hope that it will
stabilize in 3-4 weeks so that we can at some time provide a full image for direct
installation on a SD card for the GTA04 (and Pyra-Handheld, and BeagleBoard
and PandaBoard and …)

If you find this project useful, please support through [2].

BR,
Nikolaus

[1]: https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/
[2]: http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%3ADonation


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