Re: [Gumstix-users] Low Power How to

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Hi Marshall,
            I tried the 39-pm version about a month ago, however, I could
not get the touchscreen driver to work with tslib, could this
be related to the spi issue.

James

> While waiting in the airport I decided to look into why everyone is
> having problems fetching from steve's git.  I don't know exactly what
> the problem is but I have found a work around.
>
> Work around: temporarily rename the sources directory in $OVEROTOP
> (usually $HOME/overo-oe) and then run the recipe directly.
>
> cd $OVEROTOP
> mv sources sources.bak
> bitbake -b user.collection/recipes/linux/linux-omap-pm_2.6.39.bb
>
> That should fetch the sources and build.  Once its done, you can copy
> the files in "sources" to "sources.bak" and rename the sources.bak to
> sources.
>
> I think what's happening is that there kind of "collision" between
> user branch sources and the openembedded sources.  When you do a
> normal bitbake build of the kernel with open embedded sources it pulls
> steves git repository and packages it up.  When you switch to the
> user.collection recipes, they try to pull from the sources downloaded
> git repo but the pm branch isn't there.
>
> That may be completely wrong as I'm no git or bitbake expert but its
> the only answer I have...
>
> Marshall
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Marshall Crocker <ma...@gm...>
> wrote:
>> That's my site with the 2.6.39-pm recipe.  I'm not using 2.6.39-pm
>> anymore due to problems with the spi driver.  If you get it working
>> feel free to update the wiki and post the files somewhere.
>>
>> Marshall
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:22 PM, bwilkins <br...@ro...> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's still building, but it's way past the point of failure.  I've
>>> emailed
>>> the contact address on the site that is hosting the scripts and made
>>> him or
>>> her aware of the error.
>>>
>>>
>>> sakoman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure who maintains that web page or the recipes, but the
>>>> recipe seems to be trying to pull the wrong commit id:
>>>>
>>>>>>  From git://www.sakoman.com/git/linux-omap-2.6
>>>>>>   * branch            omap-2.6.39-pm -> FETCH_HEAD
>>>>>>  fatal: failed to unpack tree object
>>>>>> ed0d909828929e2616a8ff6b1cc932c081ffac29
>>>>
>>>> The head of the omap-2.6.39-pm branch is
>>>> 2798b84a162a63d5563ea188151585e2a256faf3, not
>>>> ed0d909828929e2616a8ff6b1cc932c081ffac29.
>>>>
>>>> So no surprise that the recipe couldn't unpack the requested commit!
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>
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