What is the state of OMAP5432 support in the mainline Linux kernel ?

[Linux-SWAT]

Hi !

What is the state of OMAP5432 support in the mainline Linux kernel ?

 

[TrashyMG]

Hi !

What is the state of OMAP5432 support in the mainline Linux kernel ?

Seems better supported than Intel Bay Trail for sure. (At least with my experience getting Linux working on my tablet PC)


Running 4.0 kernel on the OMAP5 devboard, seems stable, some custom DTB required.


Edit: clarifying statement. 

 

[Neelix]

What's DTB?

- Neelix

 

[TrashyMG]

What's DTB?

- Neelix

This is the best description I found, http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1647051&seqNum=5

Edit: Also just to say, to me it's just magic files provided by Nikolaus, bundled in the Kernel aTc builds.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

You took the .config from the Pyra kernel and recompiled ?

 

[_jr_]

Not sure what the best source is ,but you can take a look at http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/

This is about upstreaming the support for various boards Nikolaus develops.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Hi !

What is the state of OMAP5432 support in the mainline Linux kernel ?

Seems better supported than Intel Bay Trail for sure. (At least with my experience getting Linux working on my tablet PC)


Running 4.0 kernel on the OMAP5 devboard, seems stable, some custom DTB required.


Edit: clarifying statement. 

Do you use mainline or a Ti branch ?

 

[TrashyMG]

Do you use mainline or a Ti branch ?

Mainline, Ti is horrible at maintaining an updated kernel. once Ti gets their devboard to boot they seem to end support shortly after. I think 3.8 is their latest kernel... it's buggy, causes the SoC to overheat... the SGX works so I guess it has that going for it.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

So no patching ?

 

[TrashyMG]

So no patching ?

I'm not entirely sure what aTc does during his builds..

 

[bzar]

My guess

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VjGSMUep6_4?feature=oembed