Hi,

Some corrections below:

ti, 2012-09-25 kello 13:44 +0300, Kalle Jokiniemi kirjoitti:
> 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 outdated being derived from 2.6.32 base.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.

Had bit of discussion in IRC about the patch sending, and decided that
mer-general is not the right place for that. I'm looking into creating
some form of pull-request instructions using bitbucket for those that
don't yet have push access to the main repo. Stay tuned...

- Kalle

> 
> 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
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