[Gpephone-devel] stability of HTC Tornado?

[Joshua Layne]

Hi Florian,
Thank you very much!  I downloaded the images, set my card up etc.... and am booting into linux, but the boot is not completing (my Tornado is a T-Mobile USA SDA although that should not matter I think).  

my eyes are going to curse me for this.... but here goes my hand transcript of the backtrace (I will try to minimize errors, but cannot guarantee):


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Backtrace:
(__wake_up_common+0x0/0x78) (__wake_up+0x0/)x78)  r8 = 00005000  r7 = C4494468  r6 = 00000001  r5 = C0395240
(__wake_up_bit+0x0/0x3c) (unlock_page+0x0/0x4c)  r4 = C44D5AA0
(mpage_end_io_read+0x0/0xd0)  r6 = C44D5AA0  r5 = C00A4C64  r4 = C44D5AA0
(bio_endio+0x0/0x98)  r5 = C442BC00  r4 = 00000000
(__end_that_request_first+0x0/0x524) (end_that_request_chunk+0x0/0x14) (mmc_blk_issue_rq+0x0/0x328) (mmc_queue_thread+0x0/0x1c4)  r7 00000000 r6 = 00000000  r5 = 00000000  r4 00000000
Code: e24cb004 e24dd004 e590c000 e59b9004 (e59c5000)
 <6>note: mmcqd[647] exited with preempt_count 2
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(I tried this 3 times - twice it made it to a pdflush error, once it only made it as far as the mmcqd error above (and I waited long enough to type that with squinty eyes.  In all cases, there a significant pause if not outright stop at the mmcqd step)

keys entered at this stage generate the keycode they are mapped to - it looks like some of the keys are still unmapped (the 4 'media keys', the volume up/down, the 'communication settings' key, the power key, and the camera key)... I'm sure these are named for linux somewhere, but I don't know where :) so I make up my own names.

I will continue to play with it, I may have done something wrong - I assume that ext3 is OK for the linux filesystem? (since it can 'fail over' to ext2 if that is all that is supported)

Just to be clear, I am not expecting any support whatsoever on this, I am just sharing my experience with the hope that it helps - I very much appreciate all the work that people are putting in.

I will continue to experiment and watch the progress on the wiki/project page.  Thank you again.

Best regards,
Josh

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:40:14 +0200, Florian Boor <florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Joshua Layne schrieb:
>> Hi All, I just joined the group, I have followed some other GPE
> activities
>> previously and run GPE on my h2200. I am very interested in checking out
>> GPEPE (it looks really cool!) and would be more than willing to use it
> as my
>> primary phone (nothing too mission critical) to bug test it.  All I
> really
>> care about is phone functions (call, receive, etc...) - do these work on
> the
>> HTC Tornado?  My phone is application unlocked and I believe the
> procedure is
>> to boot by holding the camera button and pressing the power button for
> less
>> than 0.5 seconds with an image on the SD card.  I assume if I can get OE
> up
>> and running to build for the tornado, it will create an image that has
> the
>> HTC headers.
> 
> I just checked in support for the HTC Tornado into OE. We can build quite
> nice
> images but there are still some essential things missing:
> - There is still no Linux support for the telephony functions on that
> device
> - Some backends for status displays would be useful.
> - There are some open UI issues on devices without touchscreen
> - We need a text input method
> 
> If you want to try you can download my testing images linked here:
> http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/GpepeDeviceSupport
> 
> Any feedback is welcome of course!
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian
> 
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