Hi Otavio, I was going to push this patchset, but I just rebuilt with u-boot-fslc v2015.10 and found that with this version of U-Boot, the Tower platform hangs during U-Boot load. I am going to further investigate tomorrow and will push my changes once I have fixed the issue.
Thanks, Tony On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Tony Felice <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Otavio, > > I have added GCC 5.2 build support to the 3.13 Timesys Linux kernel. We > investigated Linux 4.1 about a month ago and found that there was some > missing core support for the Vybrid Tower: QSPI, MCC v2.x, USB Host, NOR > Flash with jffs2/ubifs, and touchscreen functionality with the TWR-LCD-RGB. > Our goal is to mainline support for these or to coordinate with Toradex to > add support to their 4.1 kernel, targeting the April 2016 Yocto release. I > will submit the 3.13 patches for you to review - at the very least, these > will provide complete Vybrid support for this coming release. > > Thanks, > > Tony > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Otavio Salvador < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Stefan Agner <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 2015-10-07 13:58, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> >> The Vybrid support in the meta-fsl-arm is mostly dead upstream as they >> >> are non-responsive for the requests we did[1]. In other occasions I >> >> tried to contact them privately asking for their help and there >> >> without success. >> >> >> >> 1. >> >> >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-August/015665.html >> >> >> >> The kernel is quite old (3.0.15) and has problems building with >> >> current toolchain (GCC 5.2) and several known security flaws. >> >> >> >> Is there someone willing to adopt it? otherwise I plan to send a >> >> removal patch for it in next coming days. >> > >> > I am willing to maintain a 4.1 (or later) based tree for Vybrid. In >> > vanilla 4.1, support is fairly well with some pieces missing, e.g. NAND >> > and graphics driver... >> >> I really appreciate your offer and this goes in the best long-term >> direction in my opinion. >> >> Please let me know if you need any help from me. :-) >> >> -- >> Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems >> http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br >> Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> meta-freescale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale >> > > > > -- > Tony Felice > Vybrid Technical Lead > Timesys Corporation > -- Tony Felice Vybrid Technical Lead Timesys Corporation
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