The second batch of 20 balloon3 prototypes are showing signs of life after
some build hiccoughs.
The kernel sources and development distro is updated with several
noteworthy changes. The test-v0.1-testing rootfs is promoted and overwrites
test-v0.1.
- Toppoly VGA LCD panel and raw touchscreen support is added to the kernel.
I have an xserver that is close to working nicely with the exception of
touchscreen support that is too jittery to use and makes xeyes look a bit
mad. Screens showing firefox, thunderbird, galeon and evolution all look
very good while running on a laptop while using the Balloon3 as the xserver.
- Udev support is now running well with only two oddities. Coldplug doesn't
function as would be expected. A script at the end of the udev startup to
poke "add" into /sys/../uevent is planned to make it work. Also, udev seems
to try and do something to /dev/mtdblock0 and gets slightly upset when it
can't - that needs investigating. A "don't do that" udev rule will make it
not happen if that is the workaround. Wakeup is a bit slow due to
interminable udev efforts to populate /dev. This needs a longer look at.
- SDRAM (up to 4 banks in principle) is now from 0xa0000000 as per normal
for pxa - the first batch were anomalous. This is reflected in bootldr and
the kernel.
- There is a single unified bootldr for cpld and fpga variants.
If a NOR fpga image is mistakenly put into a cpld version, bootldr will
stutter as it tries and fails to persuade the cpld to accept it. This will
be tidied up in due course.
Nick Bane
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