[Arm-netbook] "allwinner's A10" codenamed "sun4i crane", linux kernel v2.6.36 patch available

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

Hi juan am travelling do your best let of know how you get on I will
try later in the week l.

On 11/30/11, Juan Carlos Mendez <jcmendez at locatel.biz> wrote:
> This night I did some tests.
> Now, I've downloaded  (thanks for your efforts, Luke )  the 2 repositories
>
>      allwinner/v2.6.36
>      allwinner/android/v2.6.36
>
> but every time I'm more confused...
>
> On the one hand:
> The "allwinner/v2.6.36"  is a complete kernel but serveral files are
> missing and lot of them must to be patched...
>
> on the one hand:
>    The "allwinner/android/v2.6.36"  is a INcomplete kernel... It looks
> as a differential snapshot of the files... Mainly contains Kconfig and
> Makefile  files and the rest of the code is missing...
>
>
> I merged both repositories  and now the .config  checks sucessfully and
> we can use   the "make menuconfig"  to enable or disable options more
> easily.
> But still several files are missing  (for example,  the now infamous
> arch/arm/mach-sun4i/pin/sys_config_verify_ddr3.bin  )
> However, even adding the missing files still fails to compile
>
>
> I don't know if I'm understanding  well what wewant to achieve...
>
>   We want to get an Android kernel from a Linux base kernel
>
>   or ... we want to get a more Linux like kernel  from an android kernel
> sources
>
>   or ... something in the middle...
>
>   or... none of the above
>
>
> The problem is I now have  lots of  kernel versions ( 6 or more )  but
> all are different,  all are imcomplete  and all fails in several stages
> of compilation...
> Probably with pieces from one or the other I can get a functional
> version ... but wasteof time, right?
>
> Is not there a full, complete  and compilable kernel version (either
> from an Android kernel sources or elsewhere) that we can use as a
> starting point?
>
>
> jky.
>
>
>
> El 29/11/11 17:13, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton escribió:
>> lkcl at free:~/allwinner/linux-stable$ git push armnetbook
>> allwinner/android/v2.6.36
>> Counting objects: 3249, done.
>> Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (1194/1194), done.
>> Writing objects: 100% (1812/1812), 281.44 KiB, done.
>> Total 1812 (delta 691), reused 18 (delta 2)
>> To git+ssh://lkcl-guest@git.debian.org/git/arm-netbook/arm-netbook.git
>>   * [new branch]      allwinner/android/v2.6.36 ->
>> allwinner/android/v2.6.36
>> lkcl at free:~/allwinner/linux-stable$
>>
>>   done too, what the heck, might as well.
>>
>>   ok see how you get on with that, juan.  hua, let me know if that works
>> as well?
>>
>>   l.
>>
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