Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:46:17PM +, Tim Fletcher wrote: >> On 08/12/13 16:36, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >>> If USB is not working then whole Cubietruck is not working. >>> Because I plug the keyboard into USB. >>> >>> For my Cubietruck USB

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 08/12/13 19:39, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:46:17PM +, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 08/12/13 16:36, Alexey Eromenko wrote: If USB is not working then whole Cubietruck is not working. Because I plug the keyboard into USB. For my Cubietruck USB is working on Linux 3.4 USB

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:46:17PM +, Tim Fletcher wrote: > On 08/12/13 16:36, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> If USB is not working then whole Cubietruck is not working. >> Because I plug the keyboard into USB. >> >> For my Cubietruck USB is working on Linux 3.4 > > USB works fine on the 3.4 kernel,

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 08/12/13 16:36, Alexey Eromenko wrote: If USB is not working then whole Cubietruck is not working. Because I plug the keyboard into USB. For my Cubietruck USB is working on Linux 3.4 USB works fine on the 3.4 kernel, the point I was making is that I am now running debian jessie on a mainli

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Alexey Eromenko
If USB is not working then whole Cubietruck is not working. Because I plug the keyboard into USB. For my Cubietruck USB is working on Linux 3.4

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 08/12/13 14:14, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Tim Fletcher wrote: I now have a Cubietruck with Debian Jessie and linux 3.0.13-rc2 running on it from this git tree: https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-test 3.0.13? that's very very

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Tim Fletcher wrote: > On 07/12/13 14:56, Tim Fletcher wrote: >> >> On 31/10/13 23:29, Wookey wrote: >>> >>> +++ Konstantinos Margaritis [2013-10-31 23:03 +0200]: you forgot the most important component, the kernel! is the SoC/platform supported in ma

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 07/12/13 14:56, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 31/10/13 23:29, Wookey wrote: +++ Konstantinos Margaritis [2013-10-31 23:03 +0200]: you forgot the most important component, the kernel! is the SoC/platform supported in mainline kernel? I guess not, but is the vendor provided kernel based off a newer o

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-07 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 31/10/13 23:29, Wookey wrote: +++ Konstantinos Margaritis [2013-10-31 23:03 +0200]: you forgot the most important component, the kernel! is the SoC/platform supported in mainline kernel? I guess not, but is the vendor provided kernel based off a newer one (like 3.8, 3.10, etc?) or an ancient

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Wookey wrote: > But it's not a 'fetish'. The issue is that there is no resource in > Debian (or other distros, mostly) to support piles of random vendor > kernel trees, one for each device. We tried to do this back in the early > days of arm and it didn't work - cod

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:56:24PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > I personally really dislike this upstream fetish. It is the only way that has managed to keep things supported long term so far. > The effect is highly detrimental, as it mostly ignores the hard work > needed on getting broken and b

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Wookey
+++ Luc Verhaegen [2013-11-05 17:56 +0100]: > > I personally really dislike this upstream fetish. > > The effect is highly detrimental, as it mostly ignores the hard work > needed on getting broken and bad code in difficult places fixed. The > initial and perhaps easy bits make it upstream, and

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:43:20AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:21:52AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > UPDATE: > > Here I found AllWinner Linux mainlining effort > > http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort > > That looks promising. > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 201

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:44:25PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > linux-sunxi.org is where it is at, and people are working real hard on > getting kernel code working and clean, and some bits do make it upstream > as they become useful. The enormity of this task should not be > underestimated, es

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:39:50AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:21:01AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > 1. Only open & free drivers needs to be integrated into Debian. > > Non-free drivers just needs to be documented how-to-install. (I will > > try to help where I c

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:21:52AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > UPDATE: > Here I found AllWinner Linux mainlining effort > http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort That looks promising. > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > Worth reading: > > Getting Allwinner SoC

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:21:01AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > 1. Only open & free drivers needs to be integrated into Debian. > Non-free drivers just needs to be documented how-to-install. (I will > try to help where I can) > > 2. CubieTruck uses own Linux kernel fork 3.4.x (old) -- same is

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-01 Thread Alexey Eromenko
UPDATE: Here I found AllWinner Linux mainlining effort http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Worth reading: > Getting Allwinner SoC support upstream: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM4NDc > > and here: > http

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-01 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Worth reading: Getting Allwinner SoC support upstream: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM4NDc and here: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1306.0/02744.html On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:33:04 +0200 > Ale

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-10-31 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Wookey wrote: >> > My goal: It should have a working 2D, HD Video and 3D graphics as well >> > as audio and networking. (for my purposes even closed-source drivers >> > are "OK"). > > The GPU is mali 400. WHich is the 2nd most advanced free-driver project. > I be

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-10-31 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2013-10-31 23:29 +]: > > The kernel is supported at sunxi.com. Sorry that should have been sunxi.org. sunxi.com seems to be something different. http://sunxi.org/Main_Page Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To U

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-10-31 Thread Alexey Eromenko
1. Only open & free drivers needs to be integrated into Debian. Non-free drivers just needs to be documented how-to-install. (I will try to help where I can) 2. CubieTruck uses own Linux kernel fork 3.4.x (old) -- same is true for other Allwinner-based products. So not in mainline. 3. Yes, d-i i

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-10-31 Thread Wookey
+++ Konstantinos Margaritis [2013-10-31 23:03 +0200]: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:33:04 +0200 > Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My name is Alexey, and I'm interested in having ARM CubieTruck > > hardware well supported by Debian for desktop (KDE) use. > > > > CubieTruck is an ARM mini-

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-10-31 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:33:04 +0200 Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Alexey, and I'm interested in having ARM CubieTruck > hardware well supported by Debian for desktop (KDE) use. > > CubieTruck is an ARM mini-PC aka "Liliputer", based on AllWinner A20 > SoC + 2 GB RAM + 8 GB flash

Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-10-31 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Hello, My name is Alexey, and I'm interested in having ARM CubieTruck hardware well supported by Debian for desktop (KDE) use. CubieTruck is an ARM mini-PC aka "Liliputer", based on AllWinner A20 SoC + 2 GB RAM + 8 GB flash + VGA (!) port + SATA + Ethernet + WiFi, making it good enough for a real