Re: Rebasing handhelds.org CVS

Hi,

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Michal Panczyk <mpanczyk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Milan,
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Milan Plzik <milan.plzik_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > it has been a while since handhelds.org CVS was rebased to more recent
> > arm-linux kernel. Is there any plan to do so again in near future? I
> > would also offer my help, but I can't do so until 1st of June (ideally,
> > until then I will be busy).

We had this discussion already some time ago, and a few of us (it
seems due to the kernel-discuss / archive issues we failed to properly
communicate that to everyone) tried to move over to linuxtogo.org:
http://projects.linuxtogo.org/projects/mobile-linux
The git repository is at:
http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=groups/mobile-linux/kernel.git;a=summary
And we have a working mailing list:
http://projects.linuxtogo.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-linux-discuss

Unfortunately, until recently there was severe lack of participation,
so what happened was exactly Anton's scenario: the "work" branch
merged mainline at 2.6.23 and the hh.org branch (CVS import of
handhelds.org), and I think except for Apache not a single machine was
fixed...

> Nice to know that You are around. I hope You know that archive of this
> list is fully virtual - you can not find it ad hh.org nor gmane.org. I
> am also not sure how good (bad) the list itself works - if every mail
> coming to the list reaches al the ML recipients....
>
> As it goes for going arm-linux kernel - have you seen anyone around
> capable of doing that ? I guess most of guys moved somewhere else...

We are perfectly capable of doing that! Just clean up your patches and try :)
My first magician patches to linux-arm-kernel were just basic
functionality (board init files - it could boot into kernel panic and
show that on the LCD). I removed the rest to clean it up and now
slowly submit it part by part.

> Also how should "we" communicate - using irc ? Because kernel-discuss
> is silent, kernel-bugs is probably following the same way, hh.org is
> at "Server Maintenance" since August 2007 (currently because of
> "distribution upgrades" - nice joke!!!!). I am glad that at least the
> CVS is working fine....

I propose to move over to mobile-linux for good. Let's use the
mobile-linux mailing list and make that known. There we should discuss
(and archive that discussion :)) how to progress best.

I utterly agree with Anton that mainline is the only way to go, and
I'm trying to do that for magician right now (and hx4700 and blueangel
will follow on that long road eventually).
On the other hand I think that we could benefit from a repository for
experimental stuff, especially where the hardware is not fully
understood and we only have trial-and-error drivers. I think
git.linuxtogo.org could be that place. For example we just started a
htc-msm branch for the Qualcomm MSM7k based HTC devices, and ideas to
do htc-omap for the OMAP850 phones were floating around, too.

> I was thinking of probing Richard 'RP' Purdie and his linux-rp sources
> - if he/they can maintain iPAQ hx2750 sources maybe it would be
> possible to add other devices ? I guess linux-rp sources are
> up-to-date (at least 2.6.24).
>
>
> > <whisper>Or even, maybe it would be worth it to switch from CVS to GIT,
> > and do rebasing then. :)</whisper>

See above :)

regards
Philipp
Received on Wed May 07 2008 - 03:03:23 EDT