Re: SIMpad kernel in OE

He Alex,

which kernel did you used ?

2.4.19-rmk7-jpm2 ?

Does it hang just in the beginning? No output or so?

regards

Juergen


Alex Lange wrote:

>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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