Hi Paul, Am 08.04.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Paul Boddie <p...@boddie.org.uk>:
> On Tuesday 7. April 2015 13.32.43 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi, >> as promised I have set up a kernel repo (well it did already exist so that >> it is just another branch): >> >> http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/wip/le >> tux400 >> >> I have rebased it on top of the gta04 variant of 4.0.0-rc7 (to simplify my >> work :), but I think it is not difficult to rebase it on top of >> linus/master. > > I'm currently on my third attempt to clone the gta04-kernel repository, this > time using git: rather than http: because the previous attempts ultimately > failed with an error like this: > > error: Unable to find 4001eee6c08de214f596e932c7fe454dc0f4c2f8 under > http://git.goldelico.com/gta04-kernel.git > > Cannot obtain needed blob 4001eee6c08de214f596e932c7fe454dc0f4c2f8 > > while processing commit eea136d69f9facb2d3807386bbac1e6b1161795f. > > error: Fetch failed. > We had that a while ago and it turned out to be some network error on the internet (nothing we can really improve or control). The solution we have installed for such a case is a mirror at gihub: https://github.com/goldelico/gta04-kernel/tree/wip/letux400 > > Once I have the clone, I'll take a closer look. > >> So far we have 3 patches on top: >> * Paul’s jz4730 work >> * Daniel’s PM MCU driver >> * I have copied in the jz4740.dtsi, made a jz4730.dtsi out of it and added >> a minipc.dts >> >> So we get a still very useless DT binary :) >> >> http://download.goldelico.com/letux-400/unstable/device-trees.tbz > > I'll have to read up about DT and what it means. I suppose the kernel build > process takes care of generating the relevant payloads. Yes. DT mainly allows to remove a board-file where code configures platform_data for all the required drivers by sort of a JSON file (different syntax but basically an object+property tree). BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Mipsbook-devel mailing list Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel
