Hi Steffen, The Overo COM is a community-supported board for Linaro meaning that Linaro doesn't dedicate resources to fixing bugs or enabling new features for this board. That said, Linaro engineers have been more than willing to accept patches from the community and ready to help me (and other Overo users) out on the IRC channels in making sure Overo (and OMAP3 in general) is well-supported by the Linaro image. For example, the change in April was a patch to make sure that Overo had the latest and greatest u-boot support.
Currently, the Linaro kernel is missing a few patches and has a few different choices for config. options that aren't ideal for Overo. That said, you can test out the build available here: http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=Installing_Linaro_Image I work at Gumstix and I'm personally interested in supporting Overo within the Linaro community not least because I stand to learn a lot along the way! For robotics, I think Linaro is the easiest way starting point to get ROS on an OMAP3 system. -Ash On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Steffen Hemer <s_he...@informatik.uni-kl.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello there, > > are there any plans to support the Overo COM platform again by Linaro ? > After a long time of experimentation I got the 11.07 release running > stable but the kernel sources are missing so I can't compile some > system drivers. > In the repositories the last log says that last changes have been made > in april. > This lack of support or ongoing development let me question if Linaro > is the easy-to-use/easy-to-upgrade Ubuntu-like solution it seemed to > be at first view. In my project I try to find a next-generation base > platform for our robotic systems and I and especially the following > students don't have time and experience to use a self-configured linux > like with open-embedded or else. > > What are your suggestions to do regarding the ongoing plans at Linaro? > > Steffen > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQRgOIAAoJED67DoYHAYtjZugH/1TGkkEgmgpoDhhBT54eCtHC > YrzXLhBfIrRv+4Z8vxDljn/wr2aACNIsh18klQkaB4oVtINLXDC4jiT7SnPSXM7R > sGBDy0zFO1BxOdwc9xpR++FRKkLPSN8iX1NCbtmagVgwGO0ngMmbv3Wg3tsj/UCG > +/ly4lHVpnCO6NHUx9xiFH4puIU5yC4h2KkrsP3rz+a7Lra0EPK9Z6irhOqecouK > 7fU/0DqR/xY2htkKmF1GbrHyuLzHwtbYDlcyf2bC81gXqL/4z3J+wDoM6pFM9wH/ > HBGU1Uua73Mheod1NTuqVpLA+08d1dBHzoyXsdHXm5ep4kPfOCSMkB04pRoLF70= > =L0yy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
