[Balloon] Re: kernels

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Author: Wookey
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To: Balloon
CC: Nick Bane
Subject: [Balloon] Re: kernels
+++ Nick Bane [06-03-03 11:02 +0000]:
> >+++ Nick Bane [06-02-10 13:19 +0000]:
> >>>I think when colin has tidied things up we should check in the 'final'
> >>>2.4
> >>>version on balloonbaord and start a 2.6.recent which we are actaully
> >>>going
> >>>to try and push upstream. Then tcl/engdept/anyone can just keep thier own
> >>>diff if they need one.
> >
> This final version. Will it contain (suitably config managed) the samosa
> stuff? I would hope so as its very handy for balloon3 prototyping. If
> anyone wants to rip off the SM socket they have a samosa bus so it is
> not entirely a forked board.


We haven't been taking code out, so it's still there. Not currently tested.

So on a 2.052 board one can have samosa simply by wiring up to the pads of
the Smartmedia socket? So in fact it should be fine to leave samosa compiled
in by default? If that is true we need to find out why the kernels we have
been building don't appear to boot if samosa is configured. Are there
corresponding CPLD changes? I had been under the mistaken impression that
samosa implied hardware changes.

> >Indeed. And we appear to be making some progress on this front. Good stuff
> >colin.


> Thats all well and good so long at there is UDC support. If there isn't
> for sa1110 then TCL cannot use 2.6 in balloon2.


'Progress' does not imply 'finished'. Obviously broken USB is something that
must be fixed, but it is not a prerequisite to getting our various houses in
order and starting pushing up to mainline. Waiting till everything is
finished is the classic reason why one gets left behind with a fork. We can
work on both these things in parallel.

[re-directed to list due to generally useful info]

Wookey
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