Re: Status of Emdebian Grip

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Whittaker <[email protected]> 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