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.