Hi,
I recently got an old N770 tablet. It works correctly with OS2005 version of
Maemo. I installed OS2008-HE, which is also working quite correctly (I have an
issue with WiFi but I'll address it later).
My plans with this machine is to upgrade it to a Debian distro (I'm quite
comfortable with Debian). Before this can be achieved, I need to install a
recent kernel on the N770. The current Debian stable kernel is 2.6.32.
I installed a cross-compiling environment (scratchbox2) on my PC and compiled
the 2.6.32 kernel for the N770. I have a zImage that I can flash on the device.
I compiled my kernel with the following commands:
sb2 make n770_defconfig
sb2 make zImage
sb2 make modules
I've flashed the kernel, modified the initfs to include 2.6.32 modules and tried
to boot, but it fails. I have the Nokia splash screen for around 20 seconds,
then the device halts.
I enabled R&D mode, expecting messages to be displayed on spash screen, but no
message is printed. I guess the kernel is not even loaded.
Is it possible to have a "vanilla" kernel working on such a device (I guess so)
?
Are there any specific steps I should have run to have my kernel working
(bootloader stuff, etc.) ?
Did I miss something (I also guess so) and what ?
Are there (for testing purpose) any ready-to-use recent kernel images for N770 ?
Thanks.
Sébastien
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