stable-tracking test image

Petr Vanek vanous at penguin.cz
Tue Nov 18 11:38:25 CET 2008


On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:15:05 +0100
Petr Vanek <vanous at penguin.cz> (PV) wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:29:36 +0000
>Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> (AG) wrote:
>
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>>Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>
>>| i am not sure if this is helpful but i have tried to disable X and
>>run | just the terminal. Then after suspend (apm -s) and resume the
>>screen | remained white (wsod) again (so Xwin was not loaded at all).
>>
>>It's about as helpful as we can hope for, thanks... suspend and resume
>>with echo mem > /sys/power/state here (I will try apm -s) at least
>>does not make WSOD ever since the glamo gpio change.  So we are
>>fighting the same problem Harald found that some devices do it and
>>some don't I think.
>>
>>There is still a race flying about, between jbt6k74 (LCM ASIC) resume
>>and the async action of framebuffer unblank, which calls through to
>>jbt6k74 stuff even when it might be suspended.  They should be
>>serialized by mutex or whatever but it's possible the one can crap on
>>the state of the other at the LCM ASIC in a way leading to WSOD and
>>that's part of the mystery.
>>
>>Because we want Balaji's stuff in the new stable it will be branched
>>off andy-tracking rather than stable-tracking when we nuke the last
>>few bugs including this.  (Balaji's stuff is based off
>>stable-tracking, andy-tracking is based off Balaji's stuff; but if we
>>import Balaji's stuff direct to stable-tracking it will conflict when
>>we see it come in from upstream.)  So I am uploading kernels from
>>andy-tracking now here:
>>
>>http://people.openmoko.org/andy
>>
>>one of the changes in Balaji's work is that the backlight device is
>>now a child of the LCM ASIC driver, if this doesn't fix the race it
>>could at least modify it.  So if this is anything to do with
>>anything, it's possible andy-tracking stuff may act differently there.
>>
>
>so i have flashed
>uImage-moredrivers-GTA02_andy-tracking_c08a4eb0f4266a72.bin and used
>this Qi qi-s3c2442-andy_7cc3d38184ae30bd.udfu which surprisingly loaded
>the kernel from NAND??? (flash card outside on the table:
>root at om-gta02:~# uname -a
>Linux om-gta02 2.6.28-GTA02_andy-tracking_c08a4eb0f4266a72-mokodev #168
>PREEMPT Mon Nov 17 17:04:29 GMT 2008 armv4tl unknown
>
>wsod again, i tried echo mem > /sys/power/state and then did suspend by
>the button... i think... :) 
>
>but this kernel doesn't have
>/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/glamo3362.0/regs to send any
>status...

ufff, after reboot the display did not react at all, removing battery
and reboot did not help, flashing todays daily release of u-boot and
kernel fixed this. what a fright i got... i can still retry if needed
and if i find some courage :) please let me know,

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Petr




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