Hello everyone, The old harmattan based kernel for N9/N950 is starting to get quite outdated being derived from 2.6.32 base. So we are doing a bit of update effort trying to get the kernel up to date using latest linux-stable. The project has now a wiki page under Mer wiki:
https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/N9_Kernel_update_project So far it only boots to serial console. As first things we are looking into fixing main development blockers like USB networking and display drivers to give more people chance to contribute fixing the issues. We will be using mer-general as place for code review, so you should be able to see what is happening on this mailing list. Also, if you have patches to contribute, see the our simple patch prosess below (also now in wiki). On the patch process: it is recommended to send patches first to linux-omap or similar upstream subsystem list when fixing issues, we do not want to generate huge delta to upstream. Also as we use linux-stable, some issues might have been already fixed in upstream. Once the patch seems to be ok for upstream, CC/post the patch also to mer-general so we can pick it up to the N9 tree. Exception is mer/nemo specific patches like kernel config (n9_mer_defconfig), that only need to be sent to mer-general. The mer-latest branch in the git is the main development branch, and it's geared towards working as a base for the OBS packaging. This means that we will from time to time do rebases & config patch squashing, etc dirty things that will break git history. Just as pre-warning if your "git pull" hangs with odd errors. Happy hacking! - Kalle
