Hi, > Am 20.03.2018 um 21:34 schrieb Belisko Marek <[email protected]>: > > Hi Nikolaus, > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:28 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Marek, >> >>> Am 20.03.2018 um 20:56 schrieb Belisko Marek <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:15 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi Josua, >>>> >>>>> Am 20.03.2018 um 19:49 schrieb Josua Mayer <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Nikolaus, >>>>> >>>>> Am 20.03.2018 um 17:53 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> what do you think about adding RasPi (Zero/W) and some i.MX8 >>>>>> board (*) to the list of devices supported by Letux OS? >>>>>> >>>>>> The benefit would be a uniform Debian based distribution >>>>>> which runs on all of them. So a single user-space for all. >>>>> I am not sure what the usecase would be. Maybe running Debian with a >>>>> newer kernel to support those boards now, rather than in 5 years? >>>> >>>> Yes: >>>> * newer kernel >>>> * choice of configured systems >>>> * other GUIs: QtMoko, Replicant, QuantumSTEP >>>> * additional low-level hardware oriented command line tools >> >> * and be sure that two devices behave the same (if hardware supports) for >> self-written scripts and tools. >> I.e. you do not have to take care of 10 different sets of bells and whistles >> for 10 different SBCs. >> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, it does not come for free... Someone owning and experienced >>>>>> with such boards should help us to add the right kernel configs >>>>>> and make the boot loader available for makesd etc. >>>>> I have a feeling this is going to be difficult for i.mx8, judging from >>>>> the time it took for the i.mx6 to be properly supported upstream. >>>> >>>> Indeed... AFAIK there is no i.MX8 support upstream yet. So it will need >>>> some board support package... >>> i.MX8 using proprietary NXP kernel which some parts some time can hit >>> mainline >> >> but I hope it is open source? > yes it is but it's heavy patched by nxp so as you wrote a lot of > patches on top. Also vendor kernel don't use latest kernel they > support only particular version and that's it so I'm not sure how this > fir to letux kernel (we're trying to use latest/greatest kernel).
I have found some information that i.MX8 is likely to be supported by 4.17, so in ca. 4 weeks we can check with the first -rc: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.17-Might-Have-iMX8 One more reason I am bringing this up is that people interested in a PyraPhone have said they are interested in an i.MX8M CPU board for Pyra/PyraPhone. So it would be wise to start learning about the kernel... And it would be nice to have some open schematics reference design to start with. I have looked around and the WandPi-8M seems to be an interesting candidate, although I have some doubts if they are still alive (last News from Nov 2017, almost no discussion in their forum): https://www.wandboard.org/products/wandpi-8m/ Anyone with an idea about their credibility? BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
