Hi Sven, Am 14.06.2018 um 21:52 schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2018-06-13 21:25 +0200, Robert Pommrich wrote: > >> I am a still proud owner of a genesi smartbook. >> >> It is still running wheezy with a kernel in version 2.6.31 with Uboot as >> boot loader. >> >> Someone told me, that the hardware should be supported by now by a >> mainline kernel. > > Unfortunately, it's not - not anymore, that is. Support for the Efika > MX smartbook was added in Linux 2.6.39, and it should work with the > linux-image-mx5 kernel in Wheezy - FSVO work, because the GPU only works > to its potential with proprietary drivers, as on nearly all ARM-based > machines, and I am not sure about other drivers (sound, Wifi…) either. > > The bad news is that support for your machine got ripped out again in > Linux 3.7, as nobody added device tree support for it, and so the Jessie > kernel does not work with it, as mentioned in the release notes[1]. > >> I don't know how to find out, if the hardware is really supported, nor >> how to build a mainline kernel and integrate it with Uboot. > > Install the linux-image-mx5 kernel and the flash-kernel package from > Wheezy, it should know what to do. If the official Wheezy kernel works, > you can upgrade your userland to Jessie (and maybe to Stretch, but note > that systemd in Stretch officially requires Linux 3.12). This would > give you a few extra years. >
Thank you very much, I'll follow your instructions and report back. > Good luck, > Sven > > > 1. https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/armhf/ch02s01.html.en > Robert
