[pkg-fso-maint] Status Update of SHR stuff

[Timo Jyrinki]

2009/11/15 Sebastian Reichel <elektranox at gmail.com>:
> But if you have too much time and want to do some work: Take a look at
> the kernel package. It would be nice to have the kernel in the
> main Debian repository (if possible, I don't know the conditions to
> have "custom" kernels in debian, but there is a kirkwood kernel for
> special arm devices, too)

I think it's indeed better to wait for at least 2.6.32 for its need of
smaller customization to support Neo properly, but meanwhile if anyone
has time it would be surely useful to update linux-openmoko in pkg-fso
to the latest of andy-tracking [1]. By default Debian still has
non-functional WLAN (or, it works for one time only after boot), and
updating to the tip of andy-tracking from the current beginning of
July snapshot would get it working. Additionally Thomas White's commit
from just 2 days ago visibly increases glamo performance (ca. 20% in
gtkperf, but theoretically even double for some operations), which is
very welcome considering its notorious performance in general. It
works with the normal non-KMS glamo driver as well, so no need to
update other parts.

[1] http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/andy-tracking

> and second there is quite some
> interesting stuff arround glamo (I asked the dev about the kms
> driver status yesterday: currently there are WSoD reports, so I
> guess we can wait some more for this one)

Yes, I'm one having the wsod problem still, so have to follow. It will
also need the KMS-enabled kernel and glamo-enabled libdrm in addition
to updating the glamo driver. The last one, though, now has KMS
support in the trunk since it was merged two weeks ago.

-Timo