[Lenny400] Squeeze rootfs and modernising the kernel

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Jakub,

Am 01.04.2015 um 07:22 schrieb Jakub Saran <jakub.saran at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> Epc700 home page I found on:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20120222180135/http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/bin/view/Epc700/WebHome
> 
> Compiling kernel:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20100713004345/http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/bin/view/Epc700/KernelPort26Compiling
> but link to mipsel toolchain doesn't work. I have copy of it on my disk.

Thanks for sharing these links!

I have updated http://projects.goldelico.com/p/letux-400/ to fix the broken links.

Maybe we should start to collect everything in a single place and http://projects.goldelico.com/p/letux-400/
appears to be the best maintained at the moment.

If anyone needs write access to that project to upload things and edit/write pages, please register and
mail me your user name.

BR,
Nikolaus


> 
> Regards
> Jakub
> 
> 
> 
> 2015-03-31 23:34 GMT+02:00 David Boddie <david at boddie.org.uk>:
> On Tuesday 31. March 2015, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > Am 24.03.2015 um 23:46 schrieb David Boddie <david at boddie.org.uk>:
> 
> > > I noticed the 3.12-wip-letux400 branch at
> > >
> > >  http://git.goldelico.com/gta04-kernel.git
> > >
> > > and will look into that.
> >
> > Well, it is just a dummy. No real work has been done to support the Letux
> > 400 in this kernel, but I would be happy to support such a project. Maybe
> > we could even rebase and jump forward to 4.0-rc6 :)
> 
> We'll see. Unfortunately, quite a lot has happened since 2.6.24.3. :-)
> 
> > > Is that likely to be a better approach than
> > > attempting to merge the changes to the 2.6.24 kernel into a later
> > > release?
> >
> > The problem is that the jz4730 SoC isn’t supported by any official
> > kernel. Just the jz4740 SoC and they have quite some differences (but also
> > similarities).
> >
> > And, the documentation of the jz4730 did exist online but has disappeared
> > a while ago. So the first step would be to collect as much about the jz4730
> > SoC as possible.
> >
> > Maybe you can find copies of
> > http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/bin/view/Epc700/WebHome in some wayback
> > machine?
> 
> There seem to be some documents that can be retrieved via archive.org and
> also elsewhere.
> 
> > Or someone just reading this list has archived some (or all) documents?
> >
> > I have uploaded what I had found a while ago:
> >
> > http://download.goldelico.com/letux-400/files/
> 
> Thanks for those. I think they will overlap what has already been found, but
> it's always good to have another archive available.
> 
> > The next step could be to extend the mips cpu support for the jz4730 in
> > the kernel.org arch/mips tree (unfortunately they are not yet on DT like
> > ARM which would make some things a little easier like formally describing
> > the SoC).
> 
> That's what I've been led to believe regarding the device tree work but I'm
> not focusing on this myself. At the moment I'm trying to reuse work I've done
> on other embedded-like systems for the user space software the minibook will
> need. I'll try to keep you updated about both of these efforts. Is this
> mailing list the best place for that?
> 
> David
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