Hi,

Am 14.06.2018 um 04:08 schrieb Michael Mrozek EvilDragon@openpandora.org:

Hi,

this will be a small Welcome-Mail as well as a small introduction where to find stuff and the critical stuff that needs to be done.

Well, first things first: Welcome and thanks to everyone who offered to help, especially with remaining kernel- / U-Boot- etc. issues.

I will try to build some more prototypes next week and we also hope to get some more from Global Components until the end of the month.

One thing I think is very important is that we also need to decide how to organize things as good as possible. This is especially important the more developers help out, otherwise no one knows who is doing what. I'll send more mails about that later.

Here's how things are currently organized. A good start is: https://dev.pyra-handheld.com/ There's a gitlab running where we can create our own repositories for custom debian packages, etc.

The OS (Debian) we want to install on the retail units is being created by aTc and can be downloaded here: http://packages.pyra-handheld.com/images/stretch/

I hope these are the most recent ones (if not: please do correct me, aTc).

This image uses the following:

1. Kernel:

As far as I know, the kernel being used is the Letux Kernel (see here: https://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/), though it could be that aTc has added some patches for the OS release (not sure though).

So for kernel development (which is what we need to focus right now), use the above site. Any patches can be posted in this mailing list so hns can include them.

Yes, please.

The issues regarding the kernel should also be posted there, and you can of course use the issues to choose what you want to do :)

We also use the board-file (DTS) from the Letux kernel which sets up and configures the hardware.

As written in a different mail, the PyraOS kernel probably should have a reduced and adapted defconfig. This can speed up boot time.

2. Bootloader (U-Boot):

Well, I do know we are using a different U-Boot version than hns uses with his Letux OS,

Really? What are the differences? Are they useful for all? Then we should integrate them.

however, I have no idea which one and where to get it. Unfortunately, it's not on our gitlab site, and I know it uses some patches. I know the precompiled bootloader and MLO can be found here: https://dev.pyra-handheld.com/atc/pyra-install

aTc should be able to help out here, so someone can work on U-Boot as well.

The Letux OS MLO and U-Boot should work equally well (and if not we have not exchanged enough information). The project is here:

http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-uboot/ http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-uboot.git;a=summary http://download.goldelico.com/letux-u-boot/Pyra+LC15/latest/ and http://download.goldelico.com/letux-u-boot/Pyra+LC15-4GB/latest/

Note to all developers: we need slightly different u-boot and kernel builds (LPAE) for 2GB and 4GB RAM on OMAP5.

3. OS:

It's basically a stock Debian OS with a default setup for the Pyra (like a preconfigured desktop, etc.) and some more scripts / daemons that are specific to the Pyra. It's split up into multiple Debian packages which can be found on our gitlab.

Issues for specific functions should be posted to the specific git repo.

General issues / suggestions which don't have a specific git can be posted here: https://dev.pyra-handheld.com/EvilDragon/pyra-os/

We also have an IRC channel on Freenode:

#dragonbox-pyra is the standard channel #dragonbox-dev is the developer channel, which is pretty quiet at the moment.

BR, Nikolaus