2.6.24-rc7 update status

[Samuel Ortiz]

Hi Werner,

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:12:06PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> The WLAN came up partially:
> 
>   sdio_wlan 00:01: SDIO device, IDs SD_0001 (active)
>   Unsupported configuration opcode: 3
>   Unsupported configuration opcode: 5
>   ar6000_available
>   ar6000_init() Got WMI @ 0xc7d2b800.
>    Timeout waiting for recv message 
>    Target Not Available!!
>   ar6000_avail: register_netdev failed
>   ...
>   unregister_netdevice: device eth0/c7ea0000 never was registered
>   WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:3523 rollback_registered()
> 
> I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour with my old (FW 1.3 ?)
> module. Samuel ?
This is expected, yes. My patches are currently for a 2.0 FW, and it is
not backward compatible with a 1.3 FW.
I am currently running a 2.6.24 based on Andy's git tree, and it works fine
for me and my 2.0 FW module.

Now that everyone is shifting to a 2.6.24 tree, what about the production
images ? Will they run on a 2.6.24 as well ?

Cheers,
Samuel.

 
> Alas, 2.6.24.x doesn't boot on GTA01 (the kernel doesn't output
> anything, so it probably dies very early), and it seems that this
> was already broken before the latest merge.
> 
> The GTA01 breakage means that we can't switch our main tree over to
> 2.6.24 yet. However, I'd suggest we switch to working on the 2.6.24
> tree now, and only make changes to 2.6.22 if they fix something
> really really devastatingly bad.
> 
> I don't think I'll have time in the next 1-2 days to try to make
> 2.6.24 work on GTA01, so if someone else wants to try, please feel
> free :-)
> 
> Once we know that there are no major regressions, we can switch
> trees.
> 
> - Werner
>