Re: SIMpad kernel in OE

Hi Chris,

the kernel partition will be removed with the new bootloader we'll just have a 
256KB bootloader partition and the rest will be root. It's just the mq200 
that doesn't work yet and which causes the kernel to hang while booting. I 
hope Walter/Juergen will find a way to fix this. I don't have enough hardware 
info right now.

Alex

On Thursday 01 April 2004 09:40, Chris Martin wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I'm still here. And it looks like I'll be able to get involved some more
> again.
> Since OZ Buildroot is more or less stalled and OE isn't far enough that
> we can build Images for the SIMpad from it, it may be better to just
> build some images for testing purposes. I think an official release is
> only meaningful when we have a common base system.
> For instance if you were to build your images based on familiar then it
> would be a little different than what was created from OZ. Now that
> hh.org is contributing to OpenEmbedded (which is very good news!!) the
> possibility of having a common base for Opie and GPE (or whatever else
> is worth while) images for the SIMpad just increased greatly.
>
> As soon as the bootldr works you may want to write up a small HOWTO on
> getting that on the SIMpad without JTAG. This will be essential before
> releasing it to the public ;-)
> But, whip up an Image for testing purposes and I'll test it a bit.
> BTW: can we do away with the seperate kernel partition when using the
> new bootldr. I hope so, since this makes it a pain when it gets down to
> updating kernel stuff. I would like to be able to update the kernel via
> ipkg like I can on my ipaq.
>
> So, now I need to get familiar with OE and help there a little ;-) I'm
> also going to get involved with the port to the ipaq 2210 (maybe LAB
> also). So I have alot to do :)
>
> Regards,
> Chris Martin
>
> Alex Lange wrote:
> >Hi,
> >If the new bootloader is working, I'll build some simpad images if no one
> > else will do it.
> >
> >Alex
> >
> >On Wednesday 31 March 2004 17:48, Michael Lauer wrote:
> >>I'm not sure if anyone is still interested in SIMpad stuff,
> >>however fyi: I added two SIMpad kernels to OpenEmbedded,
> >>
> >>1.) 2.4.19-rmk7-jpm2 - as appearing in OpenSIMpad 0.8.1
> >>and
> >>2.) 2.4.25-vrs2-pxa1-jpm1. No idea if that thing boots, but I forwarded
> >>ported the jpm2 patches.
> >>
> >>Kernel 2.6.4 should just be a matter of forward pushing zecke's patches
> >>which are in buildroot.
> >>
> >>Now volunteers could start adding some missing SIMpad device specifics
> >>into OpenEmbedded and then there could be new OpenSIMpad releases...
> >
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