Marcin Juszkiewicz August 24th, 2006
After some coding I want to present Feed browser - tool which can be used to browse OpenZaurus 3.5.4/3.5.4.1 feeds to check for software.
This tool was first written for Ångström distribution, then it got improved and filled with OZ data. It need some love to be finished but this will take some time - most important addon would be searching for package names (currently not yet implemented).
I hope you will enjoy this tool.
Marcin Juszkiewicz August 10th, 2006
Second version of OpenZaurus with 2.6 kernel for:
is available from http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.2-test/rc1/
Image changes:
Collie does not have working SD/MMC and we do not know when it will have it supported. Chip which control SD/MMC is not documented so to get it working under 2.6 someone would have to do some reverse-engineering work on 2.4 binary driver. Our kernel team work on getting other models fully supported.
It is experimental release to get wider testing of our work and to show all of you what we did during last months. Support for those machines needs some love and hard work, but machines are far more usable then they were under 2.4-crapix kernel.
Release notes are available already in wiki. Feel free to add content.
Test it and report bugs, fixes, ideas:
All feedback goes to openzaurus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.
Machine related stuff is provided as preconfigured feed.
Marcin Juszkiewicz August 9th, 2006
Title sounds weird, but it’s true. Some developers from OpenEmbedded team built OpenZaurus 3.5.4x for their non Zaurus machines.
Koen Kooi uses 3.5.4-pre on his HP h2200 and has 72 days uptime with it (running GPE with current upgrades), 3.5.4.1 on Psion Netbook Pro (E17 enviroment - screenshot) and on Ipaq h5550 (GPE). He owns one Zaurus machine but it does run Ångström. Florian Boor uses 3.5.4.1/GPE on h5550 and plans to test on HTC Universal.
I was asked few times about adding non Zaurus machines into OpenZaurus and it looks like it is something to rethink. Looks like history likes to repeat - there were plans for OpenIpaq in old OZ times.
