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Re: Status of Emdebian Grip



On 6/02/2014 9:05 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
  > 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.

Yes, unfortunately true.  Right now, at least.


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