[maemo-developers] kernel patches, Re: DSP framebuffer access on N8x0

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote:
> Simon Pickering wrote:
>  > This requires two things, a kernel patch, and adding a FRAMEBUFFER section
>  > to the /lib/dsp/avs_kernelcfg.cmd file. See
>  > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3123 for the patch.
>
>  Nice. I've been thinking about garage project named kernel-hacks or
>  something, that would accumulate interesting kernel patches and even
>  have some pre-built kernels with those patches applied.
>
>  The reason is that there are already quite a few interesting kernel
>  patches and it is hard to keep track of them. Of course it would make
>  sense only if people doing some kernel hacking would actually join such
>  project and submit patches and optionally build kernel images with some
>  subset or all the patches.
>
>  Opinions? Is it needed? Would you (actively) participate? Any better
>  solutions (git tree)? Or we can still keep them scattered across
>  bugzilla and internet.

I like the idea a lot, I think it is needed  and I would be running
such kernels but I am
not sure I would really participate(other then grabbing the source for
a mamona kernel). Following the corporate discussion
I think this would be a good place to experiment. allowing "us" to
request a kernel module against a certain kernel
certainly makes scene (can't this be done using the new autobuilder)?

>  Some of them could be merged to mainline or Nokia kernel but many of
>  them are just quick hacks of debatable value and correctness with little
>  chance of merging to some official tree.
>
>  Maybe some public GIT tree would be better but I'm not familiar with
>  GIT. And also I don't have 24/7 online server for this anyway.
>
>  I also thought about starting someting similar directly on
>  http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/ but I don't want to hijack other people's
>  stuff and it is free hosting so it is not safe, it can vanish anytime.
>  Also recently I have become a bit slow due to busy real life so having
>  more people for maintenance would be nice :-)

Perhaps we can request git support in garage? what else are you missing there?


greetings