Re: Which ROM for syncing w/ Linux?

I think Andrew missed something when sharp said check out the developers
site, cause he shouldn't need to reverse-engineer it.  Like I said
before, I think it's just a matter of miss-communication between he and
the Sharp people.

-David

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:33:08PM -0400, Jason Sutherland wrote:
> 
> > >Since Sharp is being nasty about the protocol used to sync by
> > >the 3.1 ROM, which ROM is the most compatible with somebody who
> > >runs Linux on the desktop?
> 
> > I thought that the protocol was fully documented but niether sharp nor 
> > the openzaurus group have yet ported the sync software for linux.
> 
> According to Andrew De Ponte <http://www.cyph.org/zsrep/>, the
> protocol has to be reverse engineered before there's any hope
> for syncing 3.1 ROMS with Linux:
> 
>     I have contacted Sharp and attempted to obtain information
>     such as whether they are going to release a Linux version
>     of Qtopia Desktop that supports their new method and
>     protocol for syncing (answer is no, because it is not
>     feasible considering that their customers use Windows). I
>     then asked Sharp if they would at least be willing to
>     release the protocol specs so people from the open source
>     community could develop a software package to stand in the
>     place of their lacking Qtopia Desktop for Linux (it doesn't
>     exist). Their response to this was to look at their
>     developer forums which helped me by allowing me to contact
>     other people with the same problem but no one had a
>     solution.
> 
>     I then decided since Sharp was not willing to help in any
>     way and no one had come up with a solution that I was going
>     to come up with one. My reasoning was that I want a stock
>     Zaurus SL-5600 to be able to sync with a Linux box. In
>     order to accomplish this task we must understand how the
>     syncing works. That is where the ZSREP comes into play. 
>