Re: NetBSD/evbarm NEO1973 netboot (roadmap)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <4717C21B.9040502%home.nl@localhost>, Noud de Brouwer  
<noud4%home.nl@localhost> wrote:
>>Congrats! What are your plans to integrate this and to provide more drivers?
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>Christos and all,
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>obvious a certain person needs cvs commit ;) to integrate

That can be arranged :-)

>plans..what i'd like to see is:
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>-debug usb_add and my usb_add setup..
> i crash after some minutes (but that's just the emulator side)
> 
>-debug the boot on real hardware
> i don't have any but, 1 person does testboots and has different results.
> so far he's done them w/o console, but he's getting closer to his debug 
>board,
> there maybe having console.
>
>we're now at the point all tooling is there.
>
>-hope to get an X desktop this weekend or at the least know how much
> wscons wsdisplay there is using lcd0.
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>-usb keyboard for wscons wskbd should be there(?)
> but usb keyboard on a neo-on-the-go looks a bit odd..so i'll try touch 
>screen first
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>-NAND file system has been mentioned a few times in
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-embed/
> and recently in
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/
> so i stay off that
> whilst .. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/drivers/mtd/nand/
> is a good starting point ;) and would be doable if i succeed the 
>touchscreen(?).

Most of this is GPL, but it is very well written [the files I checked at least].

> but/and mind.. already multiple people have stated they have
> private implementations willing to share .. so we could have nand soon
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>-http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/AUX_button
>-http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_Power_Button
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>-(SDHC) sd card
>-agps, audio, gsm/gprs
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>-vibrator, backlight, accelerometer, etcetera
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>-pkgsrc additions
>-pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/openmoko
>-pkgsrc/wm/matchbox-moko
>-pkgsrc/*/etcetera-moko
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>think it's an interesting target (personal) machine w/ much modern appliance
>so others should join-in. (could be a hackaton subject,
>and good pr ..NetBSD endorses OpenMoko and Neo1973 in a week)

Yes, it is a very interesting project... I wish I had more spare time.
The plan sounds great, but it is a fair amount of work...

christos