Re: GP2X hardware platform

2007-07-26 Thread Hector Oron
FYI, http://code.google.com/p/gp2x-linux26/source 2007/6/21, Hector Oron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, During ARM BoF at DebConf7 i proposed a new hardware to support on Debian as NSLU2 is, called GP2X, which is an open-platform under 200€, already runnning linux kernel. Someone interested?

Re: GP2X hardware platform

2007-07-26 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:56:34PM +0100, John Willis wrote: Once I get this into a usable state (not very neat mind you) I will be committing the work to Open2x's SVN to see if other people will come on board and help develop the 2.6 BSP. Or just post it to linux-arm-kernel@ for review.

RE: GP2X hardware platform

2007-07-26 Thread John Willis
Hi Hector, FYI, http://code.google.com/p/gp2x-linux26/source That project has been 'dead' for some time with no updates planned as I understand it (developers have moved onto other projects). I did contact the developers working on it recently however I have not received any replies. I believe

Re: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-23 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 04:07:58PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: About bootloader, the same bootloader that boots now could be used boot armel kernel, don't you think? Correct. As debian-arm is little endian stuff and debian-armel is little endian stuff with a new EABI, and the kernel is the

Re: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-23 Thread Hector Oron
Hi John, So, about kernel, we just could port 2.4 kernel to 2.6 and there would be no problem besides that closed firmware that runs on the other processor without MMU (/dev/dualcore). About bootloader, the same bootloader that boots now could be used boot armel kernel, don't you think? As

RE: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-23 Thread John Willis
Hi Hector So, about kernel, we just could port 2.4 kernel to 2.6 and there would be no problem besides that closed firmware that runs on the other processor without MMU (/dev/dualcore). Not just the second processor as I understand it (also several undocumented components of the SoC) but that

GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, During ARM BoF at DebConf7 i proposed a new hardware to support on Debian as NSLU2 is, called GP2X, which is an open-platform under 200€, already runnning linux kernel. Someone interested? Some information about it: Specifications * Chipset: MagicEyes MMSP2 MP2520F System-on-a-Chip

Re: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:15:59PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: Hello, Hi Hector, During ARM BoF at DebConf7 i proposed a new hardware to support on Debian as NSLU2 is, called GP2X, which is an open-platform under 200€, already runnning linux kernel. Someone interested? Some information

RE: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread John Willis
Dear Hector, I have just replied to Debian ARM as this is an ARM platform anyway. During ARM BoF at DebConf7 i proposed a new hardware to support on Debian as NSLU2 is, called GP2X, which is an open-platform under 200€, already running linux kernel. I believe this has been proposed several

RE: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread John Willis
Hi Lennert, This chip isn't supported in the upstream kernel, is it? Are there plans to get support for it merged? Can I help? I should have mentioned in my earlier mail on the subject that the MMSP2 support is firstly only currently working on patched 2.4 series (we use our own 2.4.26 patch

Re: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:55:32PM +0100, John Willis wrote: Hi Lennert, Hi John, This chip isn't supported in the upstream kernel, is it? Are there plans to get support for it merged? Can I help? I should have mentioned in my earlier mail on the subject that the MMSP2 support is

RE: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread John Willis
Hi Lennert, Let's ask a different question: are there public docs for the chip? The docs for the some of the chips hardware is commonly in the public domain but these are not supposed to be 'public'. They have been leaked at various points and MagicEyes (chip maker) have taken a 'Genie out of

Re: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hi John, Could you tell what exactly propriety binary modules are shipped with the 2.4 firmware? -- Héctor Orón

RE: GP2X hardware platform

2007-06-21 Thread John Willis
Hi Hector, Could you tell what exactly propriety binary modules are shipped with the 2.4 firmware? I do not have the code to hand but in simple terms it is all the control logic for decoding video using the ARM940t second core and undisclosed features of the hardware (MPEG acceleration, various