On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:05:27 +0100, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
Hi, I'm looking for advise to ensure a good and long life to this kind of hardware.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.htm...
I've took the stck1a32wfc (windows preloaded) due to better hardware.
The only thing that doesn't work out of the box is the Realtek wifi/bluetooth chipset.
a rtl8723bs
Fortunately there's one person that have good sources. https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs
So after installing Leap from usb key, and prepare the environment I've tested first the build install of the drivers without any kernel-patches. Connect but fail to handle network load etc...
hadess has some patches for kernel < 4.3 So good so far, I've patched the kernel and rebuild the whole (On the stick just for a try and science 320 minutes)
Once this patched 4.1.12 + the driver everything work now.
I've a perfect kodi (new xmbc name) connected on the tv.
I'm looking for your input on several points :
- Will the driver code end up in kernel one day?
To which kernel? openSUSE or upstream? Basically openSUSE kernel takes only changes from upstream, so it should be merged to upstream at first. Many Realtek drivers go via staging tree, so a fast way would be to ask the driver author to submit the driver patches to staging tree.
- What would be best way to maintain a derivative kernel on which I can add the needed patches ?
I don't think you need to patch the kernel itself to build the driver. Usually a driver can be built as an external module. For openSUSE, it's a KMP.
- I'm okay to build a kmp- on obs, do you see any kind of problem? (mostly license)
Building a KMP on OBS is very common. But make sure that the driver has a compliant FLOSS license.
At the end, I would like to get a easy as (zypper/kiwi) build to create a dedicated susestudio/kiwi build for this model so we could have something easy to install for grand-aunty ;-)
The first step would be to create a repository containing KMP and let people testing it. If there is a popular demand, it's even possible to merge the package to the official Leap repo. HTH, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org