From: Oskari Rauta <oskari.ra...@gmail.com> Sorry for posting similar patches twice.. But decided to do it right this time.
OpenWRT's kernel for brcm2708/raspberry pi is partially broken. It runs, but not very well, biggest concern is mmc drivers that: - cause errors - root filesystem might suddenly go to read-only mode - usually after filesystem has gone to read-only mode, something has went so wrong, that it never will, even after reboot/power-cycle, be writable again. - worst case was when one of my SD cards rendered to totally usable. It wasn't anymore usable at all, couldn't be formatted, etc.. --> trash And then there are some other issues that I haven't been facing. Anyway, all, or atleast almost all of these problems are fixed in a raspberry pi specific linux kernel available from official raspberry pi git at github.com/raspberrypi. To make this a bit harder, they don't provide a patch sets against vanilla kernel that we could choose from, what they have, is a full blown kernel source that has been modified/patched to suite rpi. I first tested their kernel by using external kernel root, and noticed that it works. Posted about it to the mailing-list as well:http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/4488/ Then I took a vanilla kernel and ran a git diff between vanilla and rpi kernel, to get patch set manually. Ofcourse OpenWRT has it's own patches for 3.12* as well, so it wasn't quite that simple, but after a few modifications to patch set, I managed to get it working. Also few configuration items for 3.12.2 were missing that I added. Anyway, this patch allows one to build a clean and working image for Raspberry Pi without kernel problems. Tested it and it's good. Finally. Please, add to trunk. Oh, where's the patch? Not here, problem is that, patching that kernel to rpi-kernel.. Is 8 megabytes, so it's way too much that mailinglist should handle, therefore, I have put up a site that holds the patch.. Patch URL: https://sites.google.com/site/variousopenwrt/rpi-patch Signed-off-by: Oskari Rauta <oskari.ra...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
