Re: Status of Emdebian Grip
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Whittaker <whitpa@velocitynet.com.au> writes:
Hi,
> The Beagleboard-based product is our established product line, we're
> already looking at TI's DM8148 for the next generation.
..
> Wheezy-Grip is okay (barely) for our current product. The official
> version of eglibc in Wheezy (2.13) is already too old for us, since
> Citrix has (to my annoyance) released Receiver for ARMHF with a higher
> glibc requirement; I had to substitute eglibc 2.17 from Sid. At the
> moment we're using proprietary TI and in-house code to compensate for
> the lack of open source support for certain OMAP features in the 3.0
> kernel we're forced to use, but for future products we could avoid
> some wheel reinvention by leveraging improvements in more recent
> kernel and Xorg releases, such as open sourced OMAP KMS DRM, PowerVR
> SGX 3D, and DSP bridge drivers.
Except that there's basically no mainline support for dm8148, and you
are stuck with the evil 2.6.37-based vendor kernel.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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