- Mar 16, 2011
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I am looking to work with fellow hacker/modder/developer who are interested to get a working kernel for their imx515 tablet. It can also meant an educational discussion as part of learning process.
It my personal belief that we do not need to have the same exact imx515 hardware as most of core function of the tablet seem to be using freescale reference design.
We could at least work together to make the core compoents are workable and then help each other to potential work out their own hardware drivers.
I am no kernel expert but have some limited success in getting the freescale sources to work. I cant post the source here since Freescale need you to sign an online agreement before allowing you to download. You can get the source by creating an account.
By the way, I own an 8" resistive-based imx515 tablet.
Here's my high level accessment on the working function for my tablet based on zero modification of freescale source:
1. display - working
2. 2d/3d accleration - not sure
3. usb gadget - working
4. usb host - not working
5. power suspend - not working
6. resistive touchscreen - working
7. internal sd connected via sdhc.0- working obviously since it required for booting
8. wifi(ar6102) connected via sdhc.1 - not working
9. external sd connected via sdhc.2 - not working (source does not have sdhc.2 in the code)
10. sound - not sure
11. battery driver - not working
12. shutdown using mc13892 - not working
13. g-sensor(mma7660) - not working(source does not include the driver but there is source available in the wild but not tested)
The reason that I have not started messing with the kernel source codes is that it too massive work for me alone. A very good start is start classifying the tablet and identifying the common/uncommon hardware components.
It my personal belief that we do not need to have the same exact imx515 hardware as most of core function of the tablet seem to be using freescale reference design.
We could at least work together to make the core compoents are workable and then help each other to potential work out their own hardware drivers.
I am no kernel expert but have some limited success in getting the freescale sources to work. I cant post the source here since Freescale need you to sign an online agreement before allowing you to download. You can get the source by creating an account.
By the way, I own an 8" resistive-based imx515 tablet.
Here's my high level accessment on the working function for my tablet based on zero modification of freescale source:
1. display - working
2. 2d/3d accleration - not sure
3. usb gadget - working
4. usb host - not working
5. power suspend - not working
6. resistive touchscreen - working
7. internal sd connected via sdhc.0- working obviously since it required for booting
8. wifi(ar6102) connected via sdhc.1 - not working
9. external sd connected via sdhc.2 - not working (source does not have sdhc.2 in the code)
10. sound - not sure
11. battery driver - not working
12. shutdown using mc13892 - not working
13. g-sensor(mma7660) - not working(source does not include the driver but there is source available in the wild but not tested)
The reason that I have not started messing with the kernel source codes is that it too massive work for me alone. A very good start is start classifying the tablet and identifying the common/uncommon hardware components.
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