Archive for June, 2006

OE/OZ project got tosa and poodle

Marcin Juszkiewicz June 27th, 2006

About one month ago one OpenZaurus user contacted me and Michael ‘mickeyl’ Lauer with info that he want to donate two Zaurus machines to project - SL-6000L (tosa) and SL-5600 (poodle). After some discussion we decided that both machines will be sent to me. I will keep tosa for some time to resolve some of bugs, poodle will go to Mickeyl when we will meet in Berlin during OpenEmbedded developer meeting. Both machines are added into OpenEmbedded project devices.

As donor could not send them overseas I contacted Aman ‘TheMasterMind1′ Gupta (one of old time OpenZaurus developers) and he agreed to get them and resent to me. Last Friday I got mail from customs office that package wait for me. I went there, paid 22% VAT (110 USD) and got box with two Zauruses.

I plan to flash tosa to OpenZaurus 3.5.4 + upgrades and check what need to be fixed. Next I will check how poodle works but this machine is something which I prefer to not touch too much rather - it’s 2.4 support was already marked as ‘terrible, awful’ and we want to move into 2.6 kernel on it. I will check how both machines works with 2.6.17 and maybe will try to hack it a bit - time will show.

OZ 3.5.4.1 status update

Marcin Juszkiewicz June 17th, 2006

OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 is near to be released. Images was created and tested on all supported platforms (c7×0, akita, spitz/borzoi/terrier) and they work. Next step is generating feeds.

I will generate new feeds for 3.5.4.1 release. They will replace 3.5.4 ones also for any next releases.

So current situation looks like this:

  • images are working on all platforms (thx to Mickeyl, CoreDump, RP and few other devels/users for testing)
  • feeds need to be built (optimised for arm not armv5)
  • images will be rebuilt from feeds and tested
  • release of 3.5.4.1

I think that this will take about 1-2 weeks to get feed built.

Please send opinions to openzaurus-devel mailing list.

Status of building is available in OpenEmbedded Tinderbox as “ewi-OZ-3.5.4.1-feed”.