On 26 January 2012 13:52, Ryan Harkin <ryan.har...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 26 January 2012 19:34, Scott Bambrough <scott.bambro...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On 12-01-26 01:24 PM, Dave Martin wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: >>>> >>>> HI. >>>> >>>> I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) >>>> we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to >>>> bring your own root filesystem and kernel image to use it. With that >>>> in mind I wanted to start a discussion about the state of A15 support >>>> in Linaro kernel(s). I need to understand two things: >>>> >>>> 1) Are we ready to do automatic builds for A15 kernels? >>>> 2) If so, which configs and trees should we consider >>> >>> >>> The basic A15 CPU support is upstream, but no board support. >>> >>> The board support emulation on the model is for obscure reasons not >>> exactly the same as a real VExpress, but it's pretty close. >>> >>> With Pawel Moll's VExpress device tree support patches on top of >>> mainline, we can produce a single kernel config and a set of device >>> trees which allow booting on all the A15-based model variants. >>> >>> I'll be pushing a tree onto git.linaro.org soon with that stuff. >> >> >> Why don't you push the changes to the ARM LT and let them manage pushing the >> tree out. Then we can maintain it and take the burden off of you. I suspect >> you will be rather busy. > > Indeed, my tree is already hosting your (dmart's) AMBA Device > Discovery fixes and Pawel's Device Tree additions, so placing your A15 > model stuff on top is not a problem for me. > > Here's our current working tree: > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=landing-teams/working/arm/kernel.git;a=summary > > This is already booting real A15 Versatile Express hardware, so we're > part the way there already.
Amit, once you get your test written would you send it to the ARM LT with installation and build instructions? We don't have to wait for the proc node, once that's done we can just recompile and be done. > R. > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
