Re: Kernel for olpc-1.75

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I broke installation on olpc-1.75, and I guess its time for it to
> > start running self-compiled kernel. (It still boots if I hold right
> > game key, but I can no longer control backlight. It does not boot at
> > all by default.)
> >
> > AFAICT, olpc.fth and zImage in the boot/ directory of USB disk should
> > do the trick.
> >
> > Unfortunately, 3.0 based kernels no longer compile with current tools,
> > so I tried this version (3.6 based).
> 
> Sorry but OLPC never progressed beyond shipping 3.0 on this hardware,
> and low-level development only really happens in maintenance mode at
> the moment.

:-(.

> We did almost get a newer version working, but it had some unresolved
> issues that prevented us from shipping it to users. I'm not sure of
> the state of that arm-3.6 branch you are trying but I don't see
> anything wrong in your process. I would try early printascii() calls
> and a serial cable next.

Ok, that's more debugging than I can do at the moment, given my
inexperience with this hardware. I guess I should really try arm-3.0
branch...

> Mainline won't run on the machine in any kind of usable state without
> quite a bit of work on drivers and DT (which comes from the firmware).
> I did once start on that but didn't manage to get even the initial
> easy patches past the Marvell maintainers :(

Hmm, that's sad... but perhaps Marvell maintainers improved in the
meantime?

Would you have working zImage binary I could use for experiments?

Thanks,
									Pavel
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