Hi Riccardo,
Am 04.05.2010 um 15:20 schrieb Riccardo Mottola:
Hi,
good work, Nikolaus!
So in which state is this kernel? Comapred to the one Nils had some
months ago?
It is based on the work from Nils. I have just started to change some
configurations and patch some things.
And, I have added Ruben's patch so that it can be completely installed
on a SD card and boot from SD (press Fn+Ctrl+Shift while powering on).
This makes testing/debugging/development much easier.
The good thing is now the combination of this kernel with debian
lenny. This allows to apt-get everything needed for debugging... And
you can trust that errors are originating in the kernel or driver
code :)
Wireless?
yes, the zd1211rw module and the firmware are included in my
config.tgz (but I have not tried)
RTC?
I am currently working on it and it mostly works (one could still
enable the char device driver...)
Poweroff?
no improvement yet (but I intend to look into it as well)
Sound?
Ruben told that it may crash the kernel. I have not yet tried anything
with sound. But I know some spurious write errors to I2C address 0x13.
That may have something to do with the audio codec - but may also be
something completely different.
And out of curiosity, is APM now more sane than the 2.4 kernel which
is completely broken? the 2.4 kernel reports only 4 states (it has
no percentage) which is acceptable, if they weren't worng! It can't
be even checked if the device is plugged in or not.
Hm. I don't know, but you could give it a try.
Can this be used to integrate Nils distribution?
Yes. I think so.
Although a "clean" debian setup is still better than the current
chroot environment, the final goal for me would be a slim busybox
distribution compiled with SOFT-FLOAT to gain that extra performance
we really need.
AFAIK Soft-Float is included/available/used. And, I think you can
install the base debian, then apt-get install busybox, remove what you
don't need and then make a snapshot.
BR,
NIkolaus
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