[maemo-developers] Community Kernels garage project created

[From: David Greaves]

Excellent :)

I just compiled my first n800 kernel last night and was about to start patch
hunting...

I'll update the wiki kernel page l8r

David


nick loeve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So far i have this list of patches, from what i have tried myself and
> what I have found on the lists or in bugzilla:
> 
> 1. FM tuner patch for n800 - allows Japanese radio frequencies
>         - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2249
> 
> 2. Allow dsp framebuffer sharing on n8x0
>         - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3123
> 
> 3. n770 SDHC support and higher speed SD/MMC
>         - http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/n770-49-mmc-2.6.18-osso55-sdhc.diff
> 
> 4. n770 tearsync fix
>         - http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/n770-49-yuv420+tearsync.diff
> 
> 5. Extended backlight levels
>         - for IT2006 - http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/n770-mipid-backlight.diff
>         - for IT2007 - http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/n800-mipid-backlight.diff
>         - for IT2008 -
> http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/rx-34-2.6.21.0-osso63-mipid-backlight.diff
> 
> 6. Blizzard rotation support
>         - http://sse2.net/rotate/Updated_blizzard_rotation_support_v2.diff
> 
> 7. Kprobes backport for ARM (2.6.21)
>         - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=4447
>         - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/eugeneteo/kprobes/kprobes-arm-cleanup-2.6.21.4-A1
> 
> 8. High Speed SD/MMC
>         - Latest for IT2008 - http://intr.overt.org/4.2008.23-mmc-kernel/
>         - Latest for IT2007 - http://intr.overt.org/4.2007.38-mmc-kernel/
> 
> 9. Patches for android support
>         - http://wiki.kimitakeblog.net/lib/exe/fetch.php/android/kernel-diablo-android-v2.patch.bz2?id=dev%3Aandroid%3Akernel&cache=cache
> 
> /* These are bug fixes, mostly confirmed as fixes, not in current
> official sources) */
> 
> 10. ARM futex fix (maybe an official bugfix, but till then...)
>         - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3438
> 
> 11. USB fix for host mode on n810 (this may also be an update)
>         - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3026
> 
> 12. V4L2 fix for IT2008
>         - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2491
> 
> If there are others, especially for earlier ITOS releases and the n770
> (of which i have never played with), then let me know and Ill add this
> to the list. Soon I will look at making a quilt set (maybe one per
> machine?) of all these patches, just so that we have a copy in one
> place.
> 
> If anyone has remarks or experiences with any of the patches, then
> also let me know, as I would like to make a table with information
> about each patch (is it stable, does it work as intended, is it used
> etc etc). From that list we can decide what will be 'patched' into the
> community kernel (or maybe we have more than one i dunno).
> 
> Im currently trying to finish off some stuff for the next Mamona
> release (plug plug), so i haven't done much else for this project than
> trying to collect these links.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Martin Grimme <martin.grimme at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2008/7/26, nick loeve <trickie at gmail.com>:
>>> I don't mind collecting patches for now, so if you have some code
>>> floating around or a known location of something interesting to the
>>> project, reply here with it and i can bundle them up (and make a quilt
>>> set ?) ready to go in svn
>> Several months ago I have written a patch for the FM tuner driver.
>> This patch allows
>> the FM tuner in the N800 switch between the European/American and
>> Japanese frequency bands
>> so that the FM radio can be used in Japan.
>>
>> See https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2249 for the patch.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
> 
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