Great news: CPU ID of S3C2442B now upstreams

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at qi-hardware.com
Thu Nov 5 07:32:17 CET 2009


Nelson,

> I just tested. It boots with this config:
> https://people.openmoko.org/arhuaco/kernel/tmp/dot-config.txt
> I could log in via serial console (debug board) and also using ssh.

Wow, this is fantastic! I can't believe it.
This validates all the hard work done by so many people, starting from
Harald and Werner to Andy, you, Balaji, community people like Paul and
many many others...
Fantastic!
Does this make the FreeRunner the first phone Linux mainline can boot on?

Congratulations anyway!
Wolfgang

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:19:06AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
> <sveinung84 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > The patch that adds the CPU ID of S3C2442B, needed to boot the
> > Freerunner, just landed in 2.6.32[1]. Have anyone tested if mainline
> > Linux now boots on a Freerunner without any extra patches? The audio
> > driver for the Freerunner got merged[2] during 2.6.32's merge window.
> 
> I just tested. It boots with this config:
> 
> https://people.openmoko.org/arhuaco/kernel/tmp/dot-config.txt
> 
> I could log in via serial console (debug board) and also using ssh.
> 
> root at om-gta02 ~ $ uname -a
> Linux om-gta02 2.6.32-GTA02_test-boot-nov-4-mokodev #14 PREEMPT Thu
> Nov 5 00:37:20 COT 2009 armv4tl unknown
> 
> > Has support for other components been added to mainline since the
> > summary at [3] was written?
> 
> There are a few pending patches by Lars and he might send them upstream.
> 



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