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| 11:02.47 | munchausen | ao2 sorry, had to get my children and do the putting to bed thing, then crashed on the sofa :) |
| 11:02.52 | munchausen | Just catching up with the above |
| 11:04.24 | ao2 | munchausen, no problem :) and feel free to ask more questions. |
| 11:04.58 | munchausen | The method of having a single defconfig and configuring using the bootloader sounds strange to me... |
| 11:06.33 | munchausen | I see lots of branches, but they look more like feature branches mostly? |
| 11:07.12 | ao2 | yes, with topgit you can have separate topic branches, and then a single ezx/current which merges them all |
| 11:07.51 | munchausen | Yeah I was just going to say, it looks like you were last doing maintenance and merged most stuff into ezx/current |
| 11:07.59 | munchausen | So that is where I should start |
| 11:08.18 | ao2 | I shoudl have a graph of the branching scheme used in openezx |
| 11:09.00 | munchausen | I would rather use a ready made cross compiler than mess with open embedded, but my guess is I will have to fumble a little bit to get this to build with a recent gcc |
| 11:09.43 | munchausen | So the bootloader can't load from SD card? |
| 11:10.31 | munchausen | I will pull down some stuff tonight and see where I can get to. I think you've given me plenty to get started :) |
| 11:10.58 | ao2 | https://ao2.it/tmp/topgit-layout.png |
| 11:11.16 | munchausen | graphviz nice :) |
| 11:12.09 | munchausen | So all these features branched from master and then were eventually merged into current? |
| 11:12.21 | munchausen | The arrows look like the wrong diection maybe? |
| 11:12.46 | munchausen | (Not that it matters I guess) |
| 11:13.34 | munchausen | Thanks for the wiki backup too. I've been working from archive.org |
| 11:14.18 | ao2 | the original default bootloader can't read from SD card, our second stage bootloader (genblob) could, and on A780 and A1200 we even managed to flash the latter and have it chainloaded without any external help. However that was never attempted on A910 AFAIK. And genblob does not have the MMC over SPI driver required on A910 anyway |
| 11:15.28 | ao2 | someone suggested to use U-boot as a second stage bootloader but that was never tried either |
| 11:16.27 | ao2 | maybe I have binaries around for the toolchain and for genblob, I'll se if I can find them tonight |
| 11:19.54 | ao2 | about the banching model: the arrows represent the parents, so yes the branches are based on master and ezx/current contains all the changes stacked up |
| 11:20.01 | munchausen | Cool |
| 11:20.17 | ao2 | the idea is that the topic branches are disjoint so there are usually no merge conflicts |
| 11:20.49 | ao2 | maybe a little overkill but we were experimenting |
| 11:22.05 | munchausen | So as a first step I'd like to build the existing code and get something to boot. I'm not sure whether to start working on a userspace or on updating the kernel after that |
| 11:22.24 | munchausen | But I'll see when I get to that point I guess... |
| 11:22.51 | ao2 | sure |
| 11:23.15 | munchausen | It looks like the latest code is 3.something? |
| 11:23.20 | munchausen | That's good :) |
| 11:23.23 | ao2 | munchausen, do you only have an A910 or some other EZX phone too? |
| 11:23.26 | munchausen | I thought it was 2.6.something |
| 11:23.30 | munchausen | Only the a910 |
| 11:23.45 | ao2 | I see |
| 11:26.11 | munchausen | One complication is that it's getting harder and harder to not use device tree these days, as far as I understand, on arm |
| 11:27.21 | munchausen | The latest kernels have made the switch for PXA. The zaurus guys are working on getting the zaurus code switched over at the moment I think |
| 11:31.56 | ao2 | munchausen, are existing drivers removing support for old-style platform data? I am not that up-to-date on these matters. |
| 11:38.39 | ao2 | munchausen, also check out https://gitlab.com/openezx/oe-ezx-build but I am not sure how much openembedded has changed in the last 4 years |
| 11:45.51 | ao2 | munchausen, here is a toolchain built with OE: https://ao2.it/tmp/oecore-x86_64-armv5te-toolchain-nodistro.0.sh if it still works you can avoid all the OE stuff and just take a stab at the kernel. |
| 11:47.50 | ao2 | gotta go now. What's you timezone BTW? |
| 11:54.36 | munchausen | Sorry |
| 11:54.39 | munchausen | I am on a work call |
| 11:54.44 | munchausen | My time zone is GMT+0 |
| 11:54.50 | munchausen | (London/UK) |
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