Re: Rockchip RK3188 Radxa Rock

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hey,

looking forward to hearing from you when this is finished.

Just wanted to remind you to keep your replies on list if a discussion
started there...

-Michael

On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 01:01 +0200, Jochen Kauz wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 1. as I written in another post, sharing is caring.. we have the
> kernel sources and we build them from sources that we publish at our
> github repo or our own gitlab, and we respect in every way the GPL and
> the idea of FLOSS.
> 2. I have looked at your kernel sources, and it is not a good idea to
> have them merged, cause Rockchip is much too different in the specific
> kernel sources we have. We have dtb at 3.10.37, but the source is far
> away from your specific multiarch of IMX.
> 3. thanks for the first hints to build it, but I think more of a fork
> to implement the Rockchip kernel into IPFire at this point. So we
> could have our own uboot and kernel, that's much easier in first step.
> 4. another possibility.... what about mainline kernel? Could you merge
> into mainline?
> 5. Only as an information.. I have put my Crewmember Astralix into CC
> cause we both are working on this item together.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> JochenKauz
> 
> 2014-10-04 12:15 GMT+02:00 Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>:
>         Hi Mario,
>         
>         On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 00:35 +0200, Jochen Kauz wrote:
>         > Hi list,
>         > I'm a member of CrewRKTablets and we make development of
>         custom
>         > kernels and roms for rockchip based devices, mostly tablets.
>         > But we have one toy that we find interesting to try a port
>         to, the
>         > Radxa Rock of Tom Cubie, a rk3188 based development board.
>         > It has a quadcore Cortex-A9 1.6GHz, 1-2GB RAM, WLAN,
>         ethernet, 2 Host
>         > USB 2.0, 1 USB OTG, serial and much more.
>         > We are running at this point Ubuntu 14.04 with 3.0.36 kernel
>         on it.
>         >
>         >
>         > Now Astralix and me want to get IPFire on it running.
>         > We have kernel sources for 3.0.36, 3.10.37 and uboot.
>         
>         It is always very much trouble to support new ARM SBCs. Best
>         of luck
>         with that!
>         
>         We require to build our kernels from source. Primarily because
>         this is
>         an Open Source project and secondly because we modify the
>         kernel a lot
>         with patches that harden it or add some features.
>         
>         > I have read a little bit in the history of this list.. and I
>         know we
>         > need grsecurity.. okay found patch sets for 3.0 and 3.10.
>         But I think
>         > there are more things, could you please give me some more
>         information
>         > what additional should be added to the kernel?
>         
>         As there is not much support from Rockchip in the kernel, I
>         assume that
>         your patchset will be quite huge. Hopefully it supports the
>         multiplatform approach and brings DTB files, etc. If so, you
>         can add
>         your patches to the kernel build instructions:
>         
>         http://cgit.ipfire.org/ipfire-2.x.git/tree/lfs/linux
>         
>         Update the configuration:
>         
>         http://cgit.ipfire.org/ipfire-2.x.git/tree/config/kernel/kernel.config.armv5tel-ipfire-multi
>         
>         And you are ready to go.
>         
>         The same rules as above apply for u-boot as well. You will
>         find that in
>         lfs/u-boot
>         
>         http://cgit.ipfire.org/ipfire-2.x.git/tree/lfs/u-boot
>         
>         If the patches are clean and do not break support for any of
>         the other
>         platforms, we will merge that and of course we will assist you
>         here if
>         you need us to. But I won't make any promises up front that we
>         can add
>         support for that hardware, because there are always many
>         things that
>         cause us trouble and requires a lot of work to maintain
>         support for that
>         hardware.
>         
>         Best,
>         -Michael
>         
>         > Best regards
>         > JochenKauz
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> 
> 

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