[maemo-developers] Maemo5 on Beagle

From: Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Date: Tue Oct 27 10:02:41 EET 2009
On mar., 2009-10-27 at 08:21 +0100, tero.kojo at nokia.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org 
> > [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext 
> > Dirk Behme
> > Sent: 26 October, 2009 17:53
> > To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> > Cc: Felipe Balbi
> > Subject: Re: Maemo5 on Beagle
> > 
> > Dirk Behme wrote:
> > > Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> The download page for the zoom patches for maemo-beagle 
> > directs one 
> > >> to http://www.daimi.au.dk/~cvm/ which is the homepage of 
> > Carsten Munk 
> > >> who seems to be the wellknown stskeeps from maemo.org.
> > > 
> > > I'm (dirk2) currently discussing with stskeeps @ #maemo :)
> > > 
> > > http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23maemo.2009-10-25.log.html
> > > 
> > > Maemo5 Nokia kernel seems to be 2.6.28
> > > 
> > > http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0/free/k/kernel/
> > > 
> > > This seems to contain some (DSS2?) changes, which seem to be not 
> > > available as patch anywhere. E.g. it seems that Maemo5 SGX needs 
> > > function omap_dispc_set_plane_ba0().
> > 
> > Based on
> > 
> > http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipe
> > s/linux/linux-omap_2.6.28.bb?h=stable/2009 
> > 
> > 
> > I built a kernel with
> > 
> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~felipec/beagle/0001-DSS2-Export
> > -omap_dispc_set_plane_ba0.patch
> > 
> > (needs manual editing, doesn't apply cleanly to above 2.6.28 
> > Beagle kernel, see attachment)
> > 
> > If anybody likes to test it with Maemo5 (SGX), I can send the uImage
> > (~2.7MB)
> > 
> > If this doesn't work, we can try the inverse way (making 
> > Nokia kernel Beagle compatible, see below).
> 
> I can take a look, I have a beagle sitting here on the desk.
> 
> Carsten made a kernel yesterday based on the DSS2 patch (thanks to Felipe!). It booted, had SGX working and even ran Xorg, but didn't output anything on screen.
> Framebuffer or Xorg settings are wrong, I'll ask someone who knows to use their coffee break on it.
> 
> But anyway a huge step forward :-)
> 

Btw there's an ongoing work to port Mer on the TouchBook
(http://www.alwaysinnovating.com) which is BeagleBoard based.

Cheers,


-- 
Yves-Alexis
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