Linux on Universal (Update #4)

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pasztorl

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Linux on Universal. NEW NEW Install is now very simple!!!

Hi All!


Can anybody inform me about:
- Who is working on linux port on Universal?
- Which is the status of the kernel development now?
- When will we see a linux boot on this hardware?
- How can we help to complete the porting project?

I tracked rencently the wiki Universal pages, but the progress
page shows a 'Coming soon' message for a long time.

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New versions can be downloaded here http://www.linuxtogo.org/~htcpxa/

Go to http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Universal for a How-To install or
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Installing_Linux

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cr2

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Re: Linux on Universal

pasztorl said:
- Who is working on linux port on Universal?
The hardware information is gathered here in wiki.
The CVS branch for universal is at http://sf.net/projects/xanadux
There is a #htc-blueangel irc channel, where
you can discuss any HTC phone, since they
have a lot in common.

- Which is the status of the kernel development now?
Not all necessary hardware information
is found out, see wiki for details.
I have written some basic kernel patches to support the LCD and ASIC3, but this kernel
doesn't boot. I 'll commit the changes to CVS.

- When will we see a linux boot on this hardware?
Good question.

- How can we help to complete the porting project?
There are many open issues, so it depends
on what you can/want to do.
 

pasztorl

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There are many open issues, so it depends
on what you can/want to do.

Sorry, but I am not a kernel hacker, so I can't help to solve kernel
level problems. But I already made some embedded systems
with linux. I would like help to make a distribution for this hardware.
I know I can do that now, because linux can run in other pdas,
but I have only an Universal (this is my first pda), so I would like
to test my developement, and it is not possilbe until I dont't have
a running kernel on it.
 

pasztorl

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There are many open issues, so it depends
on what you can/want to do.

I seen in the wiki, the universal hardware shared with the Motorola E780. What does it mean exactly?
Is it a big help on development?
 

cr2

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pasztorl said:
I seen in the wiki, the universal hardware shared with the Motorola E780. What does it mean exactly?
Is it a big help on development?

Motorola A780. It includes some drivers that are not available elsewhere.
Like the camera drivers. A780 also uses USB host for communicating with the GSM/UMTS processor. The CVS kernel for universal boots, but the LCD is
not initialized properly, and that can damage your hardware (it switches on the white flashlight LED for some reason). There is no serial cable, so the kernel must be debugged
over IR, and this code is not working yet.
 

pasztorl

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cr2 said:
pasztorl said:
I seen in the wiki, the universal hardware shared with the Motorola E780. What does it mean exactly?
Is it a big help on development?

Motorola A780. It includes some drivers that are not available elsewhere.
Like the camera drivers. A780 also uses USB host for communicating with the GSM/UMTS processor. The CVS kernel for universal boots, but the LCD is
not initialized properly, and that can damage your hardware (it switches on the white flashlight LED for some reason). There is no serial cable, so the kernel must be debugged
over IR, and this code is not working yet.

Thx for the info! :)
Can You start the UniversalProgress page on the wiki?
What does it mean 'can damage your hardware'? Damage
the LCD or the flashlight LED?
Can You post the precompiled working kernel, and explain how we are test it?
What is the driver status at now? (working / not working hardware components)
 

gaofi

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I'll be glad to switch to linux on my universal... the sooner the better !

I already moved to linux on my desktop PC since a few years now, and I cant stand beeing enforced to launch windows to sync my handheld (I was used to sync my clié with no hassle, but unfortunately, it died, and palm OS seems to soon become memories )

So if any help is needed, and I can help, I'll be glad to.
 

cr2

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pasztorl said:
Can You start the UniversalProgress page on the wiki?
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UniversalProgress
What does it mean 'can damage your hardware'? Damage
the LCD or the flashlight LED?
I want that both are initialized properly.
Can You post the precompiled working kernel, and explain how we are test it?
There is no "working" kernel. If you really know what you are doing, compile one
from the xanadux CVS (-un0 branch). And don't blame me for the destroyed hardware :)
What is the driver status at now? (working / not working hardware components)
The CPU, RAM and IR are working.
Don't know about the rest.
 

pasztorl

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cr2 said:
Thx! :)
There is no "working" kernel. If you really know what you are doing, compile one
from the xanadux CVS (-un0 branch). And don't blame me for the destroyed hardware :)
I checked out this branch yesterday and my result was:
LD arch/arm/mach-pxa/built-in.o
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o: In function `get_clk_frequency_khz':pxa27x.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `get_clk_frequency_khz'
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o:pxa25x.c:(.text+0x0): first defined here
arm-linux-ld: Warning: size of symbol `get_clk_frequency_khz' changed from 428 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o to 536 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o: In function `get_memclk_frequency_10khz':pxa27x.c:(.text+0x218): multiple definition of `get_memclk_frequency_10khz'
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o:pxa25x.c:(.text+0x1ac): first defined here
arm-linux-ld: Warning: size of symbol `get_memclk_frequency_10khz' changed from 64 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o to 132 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o: In function `get_lcdclk_frequency_10khz':pxa27x.c:(.text+0x29c): multiple definition of `get_lcdclk_frequency_10khz'
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o:pxa25x.c:(.text+0x1ec): first defined here
arm-linux-ld: Warning: size of symbol `get_lcdclk_frequency_10khz' changed from 20 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o to 84 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-pxa/built-in.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/arm/mach-pxa] Error 2

(emDebian gcc4 cross compiling tools)
 

cr2

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pasztorl said:
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o: In function `get_clk_frequency_khz':pxa27x.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `get_clk_frequency_khz'
arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o:pxa25x.c:(.text+0x0): first defined here
arm-linux-ld: Warning: size of symbol `get_clk_frequency_khz' changed from 428 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.o to 536 in arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.o
You are not supposed to compile the support for PXA25X and PXA27X CPU at the same time (i will consider it as a bug in the config system).
Start configuring the kernel with
arch/arm/configs/htcuniversal_defconfig
Use haret from the Blueangel pages.
In the startup.txt
set MTYPE 855

and use
console=ttyS2

for the console on your pda IR port.
Do not run irda on your host system, remove all the irda modules
and use raw serial port.
The framebuffer is not working yet (the driver was written by lkcl, i have not yet looked into it).
 

pasztorl

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cr2 said:
You are not supposed to compile the support for PXA25X and PXA27X CPU at the same time (i will consider it as a bug in the config system).
Start configuring the kernel with
arch/arm/configs/htcuniversal_defconfig
Use haret from the Blueangel pages.
In the startup.txt
set MTYPE 855

and use
console=ttyS2

for the console on your pda IR port.
Do not run irda on your host system, remove all the irda modules
and use raw serial port.
The framebuffer is not working yet (the driver was written by lkcl, i have not yet looked into it).

Thanks!

Another problem:
origo /home/pasztorl/xda/linux-2.6-xda# cp arch/arm/configs/htcuniversal_defconfig .config
cp: felülírja `.config'-t? y
origo /home/pasztorl/xda/linux-2.6-xda# make clean
origo /home/pasztorl/xda/linux-2.6-xda# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include
HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:45: can't open file "arch/arm/mach-pxa/generic/Kconfig"
make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1
make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2
make: *** [include/linux/autoconf.h] Error 2
origo /home/pasztorl/xda/linux-2.6-xda#
 

cr2

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Re: Linux on Universal

pasztorl said:
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:45: can't open file "arch/arm/mach-pxa/generic/Kconfig"

Remove this line 45 from arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig. There is
no arch/arm/mach-pxa/generic/ here in my tree. Must be some stray commit
by somebody else.
 

pasztorl

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cr2 said:
Remove this line 45 from arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig. There is
no arch/arm/mach-pxa/generic/ here in my tree. Must be some stray commit
by somebody else.

After removing I get this error:

drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c: In function 'mmc_irq':
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c:672: error: invalid storage class for function 'hwinit2_irqsafe'
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c:676: warning: implicit declaration of function 'hwinit2_irqsafe'
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c: In function 'mmc_get_ro':
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c:811: warning: unused variable 'host'
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c: At top level:
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c:828: warning: conflicting types for 'hwinit2_irqsafe'
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c:828: error: static declaration of 'hwinit2_irqsafe' follows non-static declaration
drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.c:676: error: previous implicit declaration of 'hwinit2_irqsafe' was here
make[2]: *** [drivers/mmc/asic3_mmc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/mmc] Error 2
 

pasztorl

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Re: Linux on Universal

cr2 said:
The SD/MMC driver is not working (but it is easy to fix).
Make menuconfig, and remove it from compilation.

After disabling SD/MMC support compilation fails at this point:


CC drivers/serial/pxa.o
In file included from include/asm/proc-fns.h:166,
from include/asm/system.h:94,
from include/asm/bitops.h:22,
from include/linux/bitops.h:77,
from include/linux/thread_info.h:20,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:12,
from include/linux/capability.h:45,
from include/linux/sched.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from drivers/serial/pxa.c:33:
include/asm/cpu-single.h:44: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:13,
from include/linux/capability.h:45,
from include/linux/sched.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from drivers/serial/pxa.c:33:
include/asm/bug.h:8: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
drivers/serial/pxa.c:768: error: initializer element is not constant
drivers/serial/pxa.c:768: error: (near initialization for 'serial_pxa_ports[0].port.mapbase')
drivers/serial/pxa.c:782: error: initializer element is not constant
drivers/serial/pxa.c:782: error: (near initialization for 'serial_pxa_ports[1].port.mapbase')
drivers/serial/pxa.c:796: error: initializer element is not constant
drivers/serial/pxa.c:796: error: (near initialization for 'serial_pxa_ports[2].port.mapbase')
drivers/serial/pxa.c:810: error: initializer element is not constant
drivers/serial/pxa.c:810: error: (near initialization for 'serial_pxa_ports[3].port.mapbase')
make[2]: *** [drivers/serial/pxa.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/serial] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
 

cr2

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pasztorl said:
After disabling SD/MMC support compilation fails at this point:
I have fixed the MMC/SD driver, so it compiles now, but have not tested if
it really works.

CC drivers/serial/pxa.o
Didn't see such error. I am using the precompiled toolchain from handhelds.org.
I will try to make a clean CVS checkout and try again.
 

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