On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:17:45PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 9 February 2017 at 22:12, Andrew Baumann > <andrew.baum...@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.mayd...@linaro.org] > >> Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:02 > >> On 9 February 2017 at 20:46, John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > On 02/09/2017 07:46 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> >> Slightly late, but I had an idea last night: would "get > >> >> Raspbian booting on our raspi2 board model" be a good > >> >> project? Would involve some mix of bug fixing, cleaning > >> >> up and adding device models from the raspi2 tree on github, > >> >> and implementing missing devices. Bit of a "how long is a > >> >> piece of string" project, but on the other hand breaks > >> >> down easily into small parts that can all go upstream > >> >> individually. Would suit student who likes debugging :-) > >> > >> > Who was working on this most recently? There was someone submitting > >> > patches pretty frequently for the raspi2 board within the last year, > >> > wasn't there? > >> > >> That was Andrew Baumann, but I think his use case was > >> getting Windows 10 to boot on it, which exercises > >> different bits of the hardware. > > > > That's right, but I thought we also had Raspbian working after > > Peter C's implementation of SETEND. (I wouldn't be surprised if > > it had regressed, however.) > > For the raspbian kernel image I had it never worked -- I > think the kernel gained some new functionality that means > it now touches some device we don't yet implement (vague > recollection it was somethnig message-box related?). > > > I've dropped the ball on this, and don't forsee finding time > > for it in the immediate future, but if anyone wants to work > > on it there are still some outstanding bits of emulation > > lurking in my github tree (github.com/0xabu/qemu) > > Yeah, I figured that was probably the situation, and I > don't personally have the time to do it either; but > it seemed like maybe it would make a GSoC project.
It sounds like this can be broken down into tasks by a mentor willing to participate and knowledgable (or willing to do the homework) on device support status. Are there any volunteers? This would be a great project to have on board. Stefan
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