Hi, On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Frantisek Dufka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Pickering wrote: >> This requires two things, a kernel patch, and adding a FRAMEBUFFER section >> to the /lib/dsp/avs_kernelcfg.cmd file. See >> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3123 for the patch. > > Nice. I've been thinking about garage project named kernel-hacks or > something, that would accumulate interesting kernel patches and even > have some pre-built kernels with those patches applied. > > The reason is that there are already quite a few interesting kernel > patches and it is hard to keep track of them. Of course it would make > sense only if people doing some kernel hacking would actually join such > project and submit patches and optionally build kernel images with some > subset or all the patches. > > Opinions? Is it needed? Would you (actively) participate? Any better > solutions (git tree)? Or we can still keep them scattered across > bugzilla and internet. > > So far I know about following additional patches (feel free to add other > stuff I missed, as I said it is hard to track all of them): > > - framebuffer rotation > http://sse2.net/rotate/ > http://labs.vivi.eng.br/blog/?p=39 > > - japanese FM bands for N800 tuner > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2249 > > - high speed (48MHZ) SD/MMC > http://intr.overt.org/blog/ > > - patches that run N8x0 DSP/CPU at 133/400 when playing audio > > - my (mostly 770) stuff - extended brightness control, mmcplus, sdhc, > tearsync, yuv420 mode > http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/
We could also include the following patches that backport kprobes for the 2.6.21 osso kernel: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=4447 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/eugeneteo/kprobes/kprobes-arm-cleanup-2.6.21.4-A1 I have been using them for running systemtap in mamona > > Some of them could be merged to mainline or Nokia kernel but many of > them are just quick hacks of debatable value and correctness with little > chance of merging to some official tree. > > Maybe some public GIT tree would be better but I'm not familiar with > GIT. And also I don't have 24/7 online server for this anyway. > > I also thought about starting someting similar directly on > http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/ but I don't want to hijack other people's > stuff and it is free hosting so it is not safe, it can vanish anytime. > Also recently I have become a bit slow due to busy real life so having > more people for maintenance would be nice :-) > > Frantisek > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > -- Nick Loeve _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
