On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:29:07PM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> NOTE: This is an RFC as I have no clue yet on which component to put a feature
> request in for additional platform support :(
> 
> As part of a line of low cost development platforms, Texas Instruments's
> latest platform PandaBoard is based on dual ARM-cortex A9 OMAP4 platform.
> This is to enable PandaBoard support for kernel-dev project, as part of
> community enablement for MeeGo on this platform.
> 
> Bootloader for this platform on Meego:
> X-loader: 
> http://download.meego.com/live/home:/nm:/bootloader:/ti:/x-loader/x-loader/
> U-Boot: 
> http://download.meego.com/live/home:/nm:/bootloader:/u-boot/u-boot-omap4panda/
>       Feature request: http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9723
> 
> The highlights of the platform are:
> * 1080p video playback over HDMI or DVI
> * On board TI's Wilink 1271 providing Bluetooth+Wlan functionality
> * Beagleboard compatible expansion port - display(over LCD exapansion header),
>       audio, i2c etc...
> * USB EHCI/OHCI, OTG and onboard ethernet capability
> * RS232/UART, JTAG
> * 1GB RAM (POP memory)
> * standard MMC card slot - boots off MMC card :)
> * Platform supported in kernel.org - community supported
> 
> More information:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PandaBoard
> http://www.omappedia.com/wiki/PandaBoard
> 
> Getting Involved:
> http://pandaboard.org/content/community/home
> IRC: freenode.net #pandaboard (meego discussions on #meego-arm)
> Specific note on kernel: Please post any patches you may wish to contribute
> here:
> http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-omap
> if you feel the patch is accepted and cant wait integration to kernel.org,
> do post here - basically follow 
> http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_kernel_documentation_for_contributors


Very cool.  But does the platform boot and run properly on the kernel in
the meego tree at this moment in time?  For some reason I thought there
were still outstanding patches needed for some of the hardware (like the
ehci controller.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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