Re: New kernel for Zaurus

> True. kergoth has a 2.4.18 (19?) mostly working. He'd likly be eager to
> have others look at it at this point.

I'll be happy to test it on my Zaurus. I do not yet have a lot of
information in it so I'm not afraid of loosing some vital data ;-)

> Well, it's Tim. But ok. ;-)

OOPS! Sorry :-)

> >From the OZ team: thanx! ;-) You should thank the uClibc folk (hi Erik)
> for starting it and the TuxScreen folk for enhancing it. ;-)

I really appreciate the job they've done. I really like OZ better than the
original Sharp ROM. Yes, OZ has its own problems but I've managed to find
several workarounds for some of the bugs ;-) Now it is up and running with
almost no problems (I just wrote a quick review for Russian PDA site -
http://pocketsux.h1.ru/Models/Zaurus/Zaurus-info.htm ; it's in Russian but
there a lot pictures of my OZ running).

> > 1. Am I missing something fundamental?
>
> Nope. Just time. ;-)

Thanks, it sounds encouraging ;-)

> The SD driver has not been open sourced due to http://www.SDCard.org/
> licensing requirements. I'm happy to build SD modules for the OZ kernels
> though.

Is there a good reason to have a fully implemented SD driver at the moment?
I currently use regular MMC card instead of SD in my Zaurus. It's 128M and
formatted as ext2fs. At the moment I don't feel any requirements to have
advenced SD features. Am I missing something?

> Well, let's just say it will be a learnign experience. ;-)

OK, I'll give it a try. If I fail, there are always OZ folks over there
working on newer kernel version (kergoth has some plans for 2.5.x kernel
tree + introduce OZ into ARM-Linux)  ;-)




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