[Gta04-owner] Kernel 3.16-rc2

[Benjamin Deering]

On 06/27/2014 05:55 AM, Neil Jerram wrote:
> On 2014-06-26 23:48, Benjamin Deering wrote:
>
>> Neil, were you successful in booting 3.16-c2?
>
> No, not yet.  Also, something about how I copied the new kernel and 
> modules onto one of my existing partitions has resulted in me no 
> longer being able to boot the older kernel on that partition either 
> (3.7.0-offmode-gta04+).
>
> On the other hand, I can still boot other partitions on the same SD 
> card, so presumably the process of flashing the latest u-boot to NAND 
> was successful.
>
> To be clear, my setup is:
> - P1: Replicant
> - P2: QtMoko
> - P3: My own userspace, with 3.7.0 and 3.16-rc2 kernels.
> - P4: Extended
> - P5: Shared media
> and I can now boot P1 and P2 but not P3.
>
> I haven't had time yet to investigate further.  Also I really need a 
> serial cable setup - both for this and if I'm going to start playing 
> with kernels that might not fully boot yet.  Possibly though my P3 
> problem is nothing to do with flashing; it might be that I overfilled 
> the partition when copying on the new kernel and modules, and 
> something on the filesystem got lost or corrupted.
>
> Regards,
>       Neil
>
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I successfully booted 3.16-rc3 tonight.  The debug cable was very 
useful, I doubt very much I would have figured out what was going on 
without it.  I had been trying to upgrade u-boot by updating the u-boot 
files in an older image.  It turns out I needed up update bootargs.scr 
as well so the new u-boot would know to look for devicetree files.

My very limited observations show that:
splash screen (tux) doesn't display
device names have changed (I didn't grab the new udev rules yet)
touchscreen y axis has flipped again

Next time I get a chance I will recalibrate the touchscreen and spend a 
little more time with it.

Thanks for all your hard work on this Nikolaus,

Ben