Hi, what is new this week? Not much or a lot - depending on how you view it.
a) kernel 5.14-rc2 is built and as usually a lot of stable / longterm kernels. See: https://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/ b) i386/x86 version of LetuxOS kernel and debian images I recently got an ACEPC T11 which is a small Z8350 based machine - quite similar in number and type of interfaces to a RasPi 3 or 4. Main difference is that it comes with a case, i.e there is no RasPi Cape connector. But it has an SCSI slot inside so there is room for a big HDD or SSD. What I managed is to pull a bootloader/grub.cfg from a Debian live stick and place it into our LetuxOS repository. A fix to makesd allows to DEV=/dev/$some_usb_stick makesd -v latest x86 -r minimal Well, only after cross-compiling a kernel for i386 and debootstrapping some root file system. The main challenge was to make the kernel find the usb memory stick for booting... The first working kernel was one where all =m CONFIGs were replaced by =y. This made the kernel binary include all required device drivers plus thousands of others. But it did now find the USB memory as roots. I have switched back many subsystems to =m because drivers are rarely needed and can be loaded on demand, but there are certainly some strange things inside. For example booting stalls for 20 seconds waiting for some RAID device. Anyways, starting with letux-5.14-rc2 there is now a build for i386: https://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/latest-i386/ You may note that there is also an amd64 kernel package but it is the same 32 bit kernel because I have to update my cross-compiler first to include 64bit gcc and libs. I hope you appreciate this work and maybe we can get some desktop Replicant 4.2 running one day. Or QtMoko and QuantumSTEP. This would be close to the final dream of a single distribution for desktop, notebook, tablet, smartphone, SBC and embedded controller. No fihting with missing packages here or there, different configs, strange workarounds by device distribution maintainers etc. Thats it for this week. Hopefully more next week. I plan to look again into the SGX driver for the Pyra which was reported to have failed with v5.8-rc1 and later. BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
