Re: SIMpad kernel in OE

Hi,

the screen doesn't show anything when booting, it's just black (turning white 
after some time)

Alex

On Friday 02 April 2004 09:14, you wrote:
> Okay I think I know the problem. Another question..
>
> Do you call mq200_on over the following line:
>
> COMMAND(mq200_on, mq200_on, "turn on the mq200 display", BB_RUN_FROM_RAM);
>
> Does the screen show somthing during the boot process?
>
>
> If  the initialization of the mq200 doesn't work properbly then we have
> to add some lines directly
> to the kernel driver.
>
> I know that Walter had a similar problem when we played around with the
> current bootloader.
>
> He left out the mq200 part from the bootloader but then the kernel
> didn't boot.
> So he had to add some lines from the bootloader to kernel mq200 driver.
>
> I have asked him allready. I hope we can get an answer soon.
>
> I will test it than tomorrow maybe today.
>
> regards
>
> Juergen
>
> Alex Lange wrote:
> >Hi Juergen,
> >
> >it's indeed 2.4.19-rmk7-jpm2. The kernel boots fine up to initialising the
> >framebuffer. I just get "set_mqmode before reset" or something like this,
> >can't remember exactly. When compiling the kernel without mw200fb support,
> > it boots fine.
> >
> >Alex
> >
> >On Thursday 01 April 2004 17:31, you wrote:
> >>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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