Hi, to, 2012-09-27 kello 15:27 +0300, Kalle Jokiniemi kirjoitti: > 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 outdated being derived from 2.6.32 base.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...
After few offline and IRC chats things flipped around a bit and now the whole repo has been moved to Github under nemomobile project, and the default way to contribute is via github pull requests. Check the details below: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/N9_Kernel_update_project#Development_git: - Kalle > > - 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > >
