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 : > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > SIG-ARM mailing list > > SIG-ARM(a)lists.ipfire.org > > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/sig-arm > >