[pkg-fso-maint] Squeeze and kernel 2.6.32 (was: SHR Status Update & DD needed again)

[Sebastian Reichel]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:29:02AM +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> 2010/6/5 Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>:
> > Is there something we could possibly render a PR-worthy success story
> > for squeeze or squeeze-and-a-half?
> 
> Not to the extent eg. QNAP devices were mentioned in Debian 5.0
> release notes. The missing bit is kernel support. We would have
> patches against 2.6.32 at git.openmoko.org, but pushing them for
> inclusion in the Debian kernel would probably be a bit of a stretch,
> since we don't have our own 2.6.32 kernel either.
> 
> If anyone would like to hack on the kernel side, maybe copying
> Debian's official 2.6.32 and adding the delta from om-gta02-2.6.32 as
> a patch could be a great way forward. I haven't dared to go to the
> kernel land besides compiling my own kernel...
> 
> Another option would be to also include Thomas' work from gdrm-2.6.32,
> to optionally enable KMS usage which is the way of the future of
> course.
> 
> And there are 2.6.34 branches as well, but maybe 2.6.32 would be a
> more sensible step forwards, especially with squeeze shipping it.
> Qtmoko (which is Debian 5.0 based) is getting 2.6.32 already quite
> right in its test versions, so there shouldn't be too many problems.
> 
> -Timo

Hi,

Afaik the Openmoko changes 'just' add new modules, so it should be
possible to prepare a module-assistant package building these
modules (e.g. freerunner-modules) and adding a -s3c kernel derived
from the normal linux-2.6 package in Debian.

-- Sebastian
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