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| I've seen a lot of references to the "andy-tracking" kernel. A search | of archives yields some info about this with regard to a shift to the | 2.6.27 kernel. However, I've not been able to really understand what's | in it, or what the current state of the kernel is. | | Would someone mind elaborating a little on a few points: | | 1. Is this generally available? If so, where? http://people.openmoko.org/andy has new binary versions every day or two at the moment. These are "moredriver" kernels that have everything critical built in the kernel, but there's also a matching module tarball. If you're using U-Boot to boot it, U-Boot has a 2MByte kernel limit by default and you need to meddle it: setenv bootcmd setenv bootargs \${bootargs_base} \${mtdparts}\; nand read.e 0x32000000 kernel 0x300000\; bootm 0x32000000 saveenv Qi (the new bootloader replacing U-Boot) doesn't have these problems. | 2. I'm currently running Debian with the stock kernel that gets put in | place by the install.sh script. Can I use this kernel with Debian? | There are caveats on the Debian pages about using other kernel, so has | anyone used this with Debian successfully? Dunno what the caveats involve, I used Debian in runlevel 3 anyway with random kernels. | 3. What do I get with it? What is at risk? | | Thanks... I apologize if this info is out there somewhere, but I have | spent a significant amount of time digging through past threads, and I'm | just not getting a complete picture. You can try it out on an SD Card for very low risk. The main features are ~ - Suspend / Resume changes (should be way more stable) ~ - pcf50633 driver rewrite (fixes some troubles) ~ - WLAN driver now uses mainline SDIO stack (should fix some probs) ~ - Android-ready ~ - Kernel features and fixes between 2.6.24 and 2.6.28 There will be some breakage of features for a while since there are many changes to /sys paths used by various things, but the rootfs people should catch up soon. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk2tW4ACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqgtACcCbAFepKRhdb50dmblBkBe1pS AkQAn3HzTNMF2cSS9YaeGDHcJnrzC5Co =cgkB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community