1. install following packages: ia32-libs, lib32gcc1, lib32ncurses5, libc6-i386, util-linux, lib32c-devel
2. if want fresh config just run : make i386_defconfig ARCH=i386; make allmodconfig ARCH=i386
3.  export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL= number of cores + 1 (compilation will be little bit faster )
4. make-kpkg clean –cross-compile – –arch=i386; fakeroot linux32 make-kpkg –initrd –append-to-version=-version –cross-compile – –arch=i386 –revision=1.0.my_kernel kernel_image

And that’s it. So easy

Marek

marek

link is: http://lwn.net/Articles/420887/

List of patches:

Marek Belisko (29):

Marek

installed ncurses-devel

1. download latest kernel (www.kernel.org) and untar to /usr/src

2. make oldnoconfig (create config but new options will no (N) by default)

3. make menuconfig (select ft1000 driver in staging/drivers like M – module)

4. make (take some time )

5. make install (must be root)

6. make modules_install (must be root)

7. mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.37-rc5 2.6.37-rc5 (numbers depend on kernel version)

8. update /boot/grub/grub.cfg (for grup2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (for grub) (create new entry for new kernel and initrd)
example for grub2: here
10. cp drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft3000.img /lib/firmware/ (must be root)
11. make headers_install (optional)
Thats all. Reboot and enjoy your new kernel with ft1000 driver. Just plug your device and enjoy . Tested on 2.6.37-rc5. If not sure just wait till 2.6.37 will be released if you don’t want use non stable kernel.

marek

Till code merging in usb driver was done 63 commits. Mainly:

1. fix coding style (get rid of typedefs, remove compilation warnings, correct error return values)

2. changes in FW loading (using of standard kernel mechanism for loading FW)

3. when you plug device to usb you will have new created node in /dev/net/ft1000-0 and so on

4. lot of problems with freeing allocated resources

Main focus now it to speed up little bit development to possibly get this driver to mainline till 2.6.38-39.
Contributor are welcome .

marek

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=f7c1be0cca2aa39dcea68f54287fb00f840a5ff4

It is always best choise to maintain drivers in main tree not out of tree (api changes from kernel versions ….). Hopefully after drivers cleanup they appear in main tree and users can use it without additional hacking.

marek

(http://doctormo.org/2010/07/20/google-doc-mount/).It works easily for *ubuntu distros but what about opensuse?

I try to describe how to mount google docs locally and easily edit or update or whatever For proper working we need following sources installed (python sources):

gtkme:
https://launchpad.net/~doctormo/+archive/ppa/+files/gtkme_0.7.1.orig.tar.gz

python-gdata: 
https://launchpad.net/~doctormo/+archive/ppa/+files/python-gdata_2.0.7.orig.tar.gz

google-docs-fs:
https://launchpad.net/~doctormo/+archive/ppa/+files/google-docs-fs_0.2~lucid1.tar.gz

python-distutils-extra:
http://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra/trunk/2.20/+download/python-distutils-extra-2.20.tar.gz

gdocs-mount-gtk:
https://launchpad.net/~doctormo/+archive/ppa/+files/gdocs-mount-gtk_1.2.orig.tar.gz

For every package just go to downloaded directory and run:

./setup.py build; sudo ./setup.py install

This will install all packages necessary to run gdocs-mount.  I don’t check if  gdocs-mount-gtk correctly add desktop icon or whatever. For test just run: ./gdocs-mount-gtk.py setup login and password and enjoy

Marek

SPI master driver is prepared so just add some platform data and board info for sca3000 and it must work .

If you would like to connect some SPI device on your mini2440 board you need to:

1. update mach-mini2440.c file in arch/arm/mach-s3c2440/ following:

Add s3c2410_spi_info structure with filled entries
(we use standars SPI pins for spi.0 on CON4):

static struct s3c2410_spi_info mini2440_spi0_pdata = {
         .pin_cs = S3C2410_GPG(2),
         .num_cs = 1,
         .bus_num = 0,
         .gpio_setup = &s3c24xx_spi_gpiocfg_bus0_gpe11_12_13,
};

2. add platform data for device:

static struct spi_board_info mini2440_spi_devs[] __initdata = {
         {       /* sca3000 accel */
                 .modalias       = "sca3000_d01",
                 .chip_select    = 0,
                 .max_speed_hz   = 1 * 1000 * 1000,
                 .bus_num        = 0,
         }
};

3. Add &s3c_device_spi0 line to array of structures mini2440_devices[].

4. In function mini2440_init add lines:

s3c_device_spi0.dev.platform_data = &mini2440_spi0_pdata;

spi_register_board_info(mini2440_spi_devs,
                                 ARRAY_SIZE(mini2440_spi_devs));

You have now prepared kernel code for working with SPI accelerometer.
Just enable all drivers you need (SPI, SCA3000, …) and recompile kernel.

If this is little bit hard to understand you can download a ::patch:: for it.