On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:00:16AM -0800, Tobin Davis wrote:
> Since I have the majority of Yx boards for the mobile team (in
> preparation to return them), I can do any testing needed for Marvell on
> Karmic & Lucid.  And I think there may be some Yx series chips in the
> field that are capable of running armv6 (karmic) just fine.  The OEM
> team would possibly know more about that.
> 
> I would like to have X0 support in karmic if possible mainly because I
> am still trying to get library testing working.
> 
If we SRU the X0 patches into karmic, I would be willing to do a
one-off live image spin (unofficial of course) that can support the X0
in karmic and make it possible to do an installation and get a stable
base running karmic.
Michael

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com>
> To: Canonical Kernel Team List
> <canonical-kernel-t...@lists.canonical.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-mob...@lists.canonical.com
> Subject: Re: Karmic kernel for booting Dove X0
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:01:03 +0000
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:47:31PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I've met a question regarding karmic kernel for booting Dove X0 and would
> > like to know your input.
> > 
> > The Dove X0 bootup fixing patches for Lucid kernel are not applicable to
> > the current Karmic kernel.  Howerver, there is a big patch series that
> > Marvell provided after Karmic is released, and which I felt a little bit
> > reluctant to apply because it introduced a suspend/resume regression on
> > Dove Y1 (not tested on Dove X0 though) and esp. Karmic is in SRU process
> > now.
> > 
> > 
> > The URL of this big patch series is:
> > 
> >     git://kernel.ubuntu.com/marvell/dove-kernel karmic-dove-mrvl
> > 
> > Based on this branch, the X0 boot up patches apply generally OK (there
> > is actually a conflict which I'm confident to get it solved correctly).
> > So here come the options:
> > 
> > 1. Ask Marvell to provide X0 boot up fixing patches against our current
> >    Karmic kernel
> > 
> > 2. karmic-dove-mrvl rebased to Karmic + Dove X0 bootup fixing patches
> > 
> > PS: I've built a testing kernel package at:
> > 
> >     http://people.canonical.com/~ycmiao/dove-x0test/
> >         linux-image-2.6.31-211-dove_2.6.31-211.23~x0test_armel.deb
> > 
> > Anyone is able to test, please report back. (As well as suspend/resume
> > issue, better on Y1 and X0 both)
> 
> Given that we do not believe we have any users of Karmic mvl-dove at
> this time changing the kernel is relativly low risk.  Especially as we
> know the current kernel it doesn't work for any Marvell Dove kit that is
> meant to work, right?
> 
> Though we would want to know the new one works.  Testers?
> 
> -apw
> 
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