[Gta04-owner] Kernel 3.16-rc2

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 08.07.2014 um 02:05 schrieb Benjamin Deering <ben_deering at swissmail.org>:

> 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.  

Great!

> 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

yes, that is something we have to find out. I have already started to discuss with Tomi (maintainer of OMAP DSS).

> device names have changed (I didn't grab the new udev rules yet)

yes...

> touchscreen y axis has flipped again

This is because we currently use the tsc2007 driver from linus/master and not yet our extended driver.

> 
> 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,

and not to forget Marek, Lukas and some others with significant contributions...

And all those who donated a little to the development funds.

Their funding helps to build a lot of new spirit because knowing that there are people who appreciate our work and believe in the team/community is confirming that we are do something useful. Sometimes I get back the old feelings when I was writing Donationware.

BR,
Nikolaus