[pkg-fso-maint] supporting the GTA04

[Josua Mayer]

Good day to you all,

First a small introduction: I am currently a student at TU
Kaiserslautern, doing my Bachelors in Computer Science.
Aside from that I am responsible for providing stable Debian images
using downstream kernel, u-boot and other components for SolidRun's
i.MX6 and Armada devices.

Now back on topic. As you are probably aware, the GTA04 has been around
for a while now but still not supported by Debian out of the box. To
change that I would like to utilize this existing pkg-fso team in favour
of creating a new one. It appears to me that current members of this
team are likely to be interested in this project considering that many
own a gta02, and given that fso is already about smartphones.

For starters this involves packaging a few useful udev rules, which at a
later point should be reworked and submitted to the proper upstream
packages.
Secondly the boot process will have to be sorted out. Mainline u-boot
support is not there yet, but Nikolaus[1] told me that he considers
working on that at some point. Whether the mainline kernel release used
in Debian stable (or experimental) works good enough to boot has to my
knowledge not yet been tested.
However Goldelico maintains a patchset on top of mainline which seems to
fix charging on every release so far. It will be desirable to provide a
custom kernel built from that patchset as long as it is needed.
The goal here is to get Debian installer to a point where it works good
enough to then install the custom kernel.

Let me know if you think this is the right place to do the above, or if
there are any objections.

best regards
Josua Mayer


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