JackOfAll wrote: > Out of the people who have a QUAD board, is anyone else using it it > headless and with ethernet networking? Which is a roundabout way of me > asking, if I were to release a kernel image based on main-line kernel > development source, ie. 3.11, (rather than the Freescale 3.0.35 tree), > which currently lacks support for video, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, is there > anyone with a QUAD other than me who would be able to run it? > > Going forward, my gut feeling is that the Broadcom driver support for > Wi-Fi/Bluetooth is going to be there, (in 3.11), very soon, (days/weeks > ????), and while video support might not make the 3.11 development > cycle, from what I can figure it looks like it will be there by > 3.12..... > > I have a couple of reasons for wanting to push towards a main-line > kernel, rather than hold back on the Freescale 3.0.35 sources, not least > that it makes it easy to move on to a Fedora 19 based image, the device > tree support and support for John's DAC daughter board also figures into > this as well. > > I think what I'm going to do, is to stick with a stable image, which is > the current R6 image, based on kernel 3.0.35 and Fedora 18, and release > a development/unstable image based on kernel 3.11 and Fedora 19. At the > moment the dev image would be limited to QUAD users, running headless > with wired networking, but as things get fixed, (USB is currently hosed, > kernel 3.11 with the DUAL), and added, (Wi-Fi and video support), others > can run it. From my point of view, thinking about repo and updates, that > will keep it clean and cause me less time and hassle. So that's the > plan...... > > EDIT: Just to be clear, the 3.11 kernel and F19 image that I'm using > with the QUAD right now, supports Wandboard SDCARD, SATA, USB, ethernet, > sound (sgtl5000 and I think SPDIF, but I've not tested that). It does > *not* have support for video output (HDMI), wireless networking or > Bluetooth. The Anatop thermal monitoring is working. The cpu governor > (frequency) support is there and working.
I don't have a quad so I won't be able to test it until dual is supported. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
