[Lenny400] Kernel git

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Paul,

Am 08.04.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:

> On Tuesday 7. April 2015 13.32.43 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> Hi,
>> as promised I have set up a kernel repo (well it did already exist so that
>> it is just another branch):
>> 
>> http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/wip/le
>> tux400
>> 
>> I have rebased it on top of the gta04 variant of 4.0.0-rc7 (to simplify my
>> work :), but I think it is not difficult to rebase it on top of
>> linus/master.
> 
> I'm currently on my third attempt to clone the gta04-kernel repository, this 
> time using git: rather than http: because the previous attempts ultimately 
> failed with an error like this:
> 
> error: Unable to find 4001eee6c08de214f596e932c7fe454dc0f4c2f8 under 
> http://git.goldelico.com/gta04-kernel.git                                              
> Cannot obtain needed blob 4001eee6c08de214f596e932c7fe454dc0f4c2f8                                                                                          
> while processing commit eea136d69f9facb2d3807386bbac1e6b1161795f.                                                                                           
> error: Fetch failed.                                                                                                                                        

We had that a while ago and it turned out to be some network error on the
internet (nothing we can really improve or control).

The solution we have installed for such a case is a mirror at gihub:

https://github.com/goldelico/gta04-kernel/tree/wip/letux400

> 
> Once I have the clone, I'll take a closer look.
> 
>> So far we have 3 patches on top:
>> * Paul’s jz4730 work
>> * Daniel’s PM MCU driver
>> * I have copied in the jz4740.dtsi, made a jz4730.dtsi out of it and added
>> a minipc.dts
>> 
>> So we get a still very useless DT binary :)
>> 
>> http://download.goldelico.com/letux-400/unstable/device-trees.tbz
> 
> I'll have to read up about DT and what it means. I suppose the kernel build 
> process takes care of generating the relevant payloads.

Yes. DT mainly allows to remove a board-file where code configures
platform_data for all the required drivers by sort of a JSON file (different
syntax but basically an object+property tree).

BR,
Nikolaus