Re: completed M0/M3 toolchain ready for upload

2013-10-10 Thread Keith Packard
Wookey writes: > Debconf13 (last week) considered the matter of bare-metal > cross-toolchains in Debian. Ideally we would have one toolchain source > package from which the existing linux native compilers, and > cross-compilers are built, including bare-metal cross-compilers. There > is already m

Re: M0 and M3 patches in linaro toolchains

2013-10-07 Thread Keith Packard
Matthew Gretton-Dann writes: > Can you please provide the output of: > 1. arm-none-eabi-gcc -v > 2. arm-none-eabi-gcc -print-multi-lib Yeah, I figured it out, thanks -- the patches I had to add ARM multilib support updated configure.ac but I didn't rebuild the configure script, so my attempt

Re: M0 and M3 patches in linaro toolchains

2013-10-06 Thread Keith Packard
Matthias Klose writes: > Am 19.08.2013 17:27, schrieb Keith Packard: >> Wookey writes: >> >>> The alternative it to simply repack the existing linaro >>> cross-toolchain sources, but them we get to keep doing that for new >>> releases, and we have

RE: M0 and M3 patches in linaro toolchains

2013-08-24 Thread Keith Packard
Joey Ye writes: > I'm not sure what blocked M0. There are a few things suspicious: > * Which C library is used? The one gcc-arm-embedded works, and the only one > I know works for Cortex-M, is newlib. Other than that, good luck :-( I'm using pdclib, which is not the best solution in most ways ex

Re: M0 and M3 patches in linaro toolchains

2013-08-19 Thread Keith Packard
Wookey writes: > The alternative it to simply repack the existing linaro > cross-toolchain sources, but them we get to keep doing that for new > releases, and we have gratuitous extra copies of gcc sources and > corresponding differences between A* and M* toolchains/versions. I'm working on this

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-20 Thread Keith Packard
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:29:23 +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: > It would be nice to have a model that fits both DSI and SDVO, and the option > to configure some of it from userspace. > I thought the purpose of drm_encoder was to abstract hardware like this? SDVO is entirely hidden by the drm_enc

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-19 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:33:34 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > I think it's a bit more complex than that. True, there are MIPI > standards, for the video there are DPI, DBI, DSI, and for the commands > there is DCS. And, as you mentioned, many panels need custom > initialization, or support only pa

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:39:21 +, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: > Well, I'm not against sharing the code and not against taking DRM's current > implementation as a base but the steps required to make it generally > acceptable > would be to split it of, probably as a standalone module and s

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:21:15 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > 2) panel drivers, handles panel specific things. Each panel may support > custom commands and features, for which we need a dedicated driver. And > this driver is not platform specific, but should work with any platform > which has the

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:12:43 +, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: > Interesting that this comes from the people that pushed the latest mode > setting > code into the kernel. But I don't think that this will happen, the exposed > user > interfaces will be around for decades and the infrastru

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:29:54 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > 1) It's part of DRM, so it doesn't help fb or v4l2 drivers. Except if > the plan is to make DRM the core Linux display framework, upon which > everything else is built, and fb and v4l2 are changed to use DRM. I'd like to think we could

Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

2011-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:07:05 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > This was a very rough and quite short proposal, but I'm happy to improve > and extend it if it's not totally shot down. Jesse Barnes has put together a proposal much like this to work within the existing DRM environment. This is pretty