Marcin Juszkiewicz April 14th, 2006
As you probably remember nearly two months ago users started thread on OESF forum about getting poodle machine for OpenZaurus team. Later I wrote to openzaurus-devel that we need developer which will work on getting poodle better supported.
Current situation is nice:
- Matthias ‘CoreDump’ Hentges will get poodle bought by users and work on getting 2.4 based images work better
- Richard ‘RP’ Purdie will get poodle from Dow Hurst (this machine was used by John Lenz to get 2.6 kernel on it) and will work on improving 2.6 kernel
I want to thanks ALL involved users for making this possible - OpenZaurus 3.5.4.x is going to be better and better.
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 12th, 2006
Few days ago new HostAP drivers (version 0.4.7) were added into 3.5.4 upgrades feed. They depend on hostap-conf package which contain /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf file (which previously was part of hostap-modules-cs).
Some users reported that their cards stopped working after upgrade. If you are in such situation report this as a comment to this bug in OpenEmbedded bugtracker.
UPDATE: Also report if you are using 3.5.4.1-alpha2 and you got eth0 instead of wlan0 - we prefer hostap over orinoco driver so proper kernel patch will be generated.
Comment should contain cardctl ident output (or pccardctl ident for 3.5.4.1-alpha2 users). Part of dmesg output (card insert part) will be usefull too - some cards can be used with orinoco drivers.
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 3rd, 2006
Today I prepared new libqte2 packages rebuild for all OZ supported machines. Users of OpenZaurus 3.5.4/3.5.4.1 (OPIE flavour) are requested to install it and tell does it works or not for them. You can download them from this directory (you can use it as feed too).
We want to have it tested before it will be added into upgrades feed.
UPDATE: version upgraded to r32 should work OK on cxx00 Zauruses.
UPDATE: libqte2 r32 added into upgrades feed.
All this work cannot been done without patches from ROAD GmbH. Let me quote mail from Holger ‘zecke’ Freyther:
The ROAD GmbH was kind enough to give their fixes to the kernel-keymap patch back to the community. I finally found the time to merge these fixes back into our copy of the kernel-keymap.patch.
I’m glad we have fixes for:
- Workaround broken KeyMaps. This means no more ‘dead’ keyboards for Opie users yipee
- Fix handling of function keys
- Fix handling of NumLock keys
- Fix handling of Auto Repeats
- Handle keys > 7Bit
- Add Handling for ShiftL and ShiftR modifiers
- many more small fixes.
The keyboard support now is way more mature than it was before. I would like to thank the ROAD GmbH and I personally wish them good luck on their product and I sincerly hope they will release it soon!
Marcin Juszkiewicz March 31st, 2006
As many of people noticed Sharp released new model: Zaurus SL-C3200 which differ from C3100 only in keyboard color and microdrive size. We added this model to updater.sh used by spitz (C3000) and borzoi (C3100) images.
OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1-alpha1 should work on ‘terrier’ without problems - if someone notice any kernel problems then please report them - more info in that post.
BTW: we united all SL-C3×00 models into one in OpenEmbedded. Currently we use ’spitz’ as MACHINE for them - this will be changed to “c3×00″ in future. Akita (SL-C1000) will be separated from spitz/c3×00.
Marcin Juszkiewicz March 21st, 2006
It’s available from http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1
Notes:
Spitz (sl-c3000) and Borzoi (sl-c3100) images are the same so we united them.
C7×0 machines have issues with sound which will be fixed before release.
test it and report bugs, fixes, ideas:
- OE Bugtracker: http://bugs.openembedded.org/
- GPE Bugtracker: http://handhelds.org/bugzilla/
- OPIE Bugtracker: http://opie-bugs.oszine.de/
All feedback goes to openzaurus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Kernel modules are provided in modules/ subdirs. You can use them as a feed:
src/gz c7x0 http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1/c7x0/modules
src/gz akita http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1/akita/modules
src/gz spitz-borzoi http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1/spitz-borzoi/modules
Ofcourse select proper one ;)
Marcin Juszkiewicz March 18th, 2006
On behalf of the OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus, Opie and GPE teams, I am proud to present to you the fourth OpenZaurus release based on the BitBake build system and the OpenEmbedded metadata repository.
The highlights of this release are:
- OPIE 1.2.1
- GPE 2.7
- Cross SDK provided
- Native SDK provided
- WPA support on all machines
- Linux Kernel 2.6.14-rc1 for C7×0
- nearly 3000 source packages which result in 12000 packages to install
- Various corrections to keymaps for all machines have been made
- Fixed keyboard repeat on c7×0 machines
- Suspend/resume issues on collie, poodle, tosa have been fixed
- Bluetooth improvements all over the place, especially in the base system
- some 802.11g CF cards probably work now
- Enlightenment DR 17 images (experimental)
This release supports the following Sharp Zaurus models:
- collie (SL-5000, SL-5500)
- poodle (SL-5600, B500)
- tosa (SL-6000)
- c7×0 (C700, C750, C760, C860, SL-7500)
Due to a lot of problems with 2.4.20 on cxx00 machines we have decided to not release 3.5.4 for those machines. It does not makes sense to release 3.5.4 with crappy cxx00 support and then lose our reputation when some weeks later we could have 3.5.4.1 with proper cxx00 support.
You can help to speed up development by donating money and/or devices to our developers. Compared to other open source projects we receive very few donations, although we spend a lot of our precious spare time and deliver lots of good work. So if you are regularly using OpenZaurus, consider donating developers.
See the ReleaseNotes for important notes before you install OpenZaurus 3.5.4.
Also see Installation for Installation instructions.
Marcin Juszkiewicz
OpenZaurus 3.5.4 Release Manager
Marcin Juszkiewicz March 6th, 2006
I want to inform all of you that I tagged OpenZaurus 3.5.4 in .oz354fam083 branch.
What does it mean for you:
- if you are user then you will get OpenZaurus 3.5.4 soon (few days)
- if you are OE/OZ developer then you can start working on OZ 3.5.4.1 :)
What was changed in OpenZaurus 3.5.4? List is too long to be even created but I want to note few things:
- OPIE 1.2.1 (with lot of hires fixes made after 1.2.1 release - mostly by me :)
- GPE 2.7 (also with some fixes which was done after 2.7 release)
- 2.4.18 kernels with APM fixes so no more suspend/resume problems
- WE18/WE19 in kernels so WPA should work out-of-box
- cleaned pcmcia configs so CF cards should work out-of-box too
- some of 802.11g CF cards probably will work
- Enlightenment DR 17 images (experimental)
Now we need to start build machine and after few days we will release it.
OpenZaurus 3.5.4 test program is closed now.
REMIND: Due to lot of problems with 2.4.20 on cxx00 machines we decided to not release 3.5.4 for those machines. It does not makes sense to release 3.5.4 with crappy cxx00 support and then lose again our reputation before some weeks later we could have 3.5.4.1 with proper cxx00 support.
law February 23rd, 2006
We are searching for a new logo, bootsplash-images and backgrounds. So we decided to start a graphics contest.
We split the Contest into 3 main parts:
Logo
The logo should stay in combination with the zaurus and open-source. We would like to use that logo on website. 224 colors version would be nice bonus for usage as kernel booting logo.
Bootsplash
Two different orientations of the logo should be created: a landscape one and a portait one. SVG templates are available from the following links:
landscape portrait
Background
It would be nice if the same background could be used on all devices, so different sizes are needed. Sending one size is allowed - other sizes can be created after contest.
Needed sizes:
- 640×640 for VGA devices
- 640×480 for VGA landscape
- 480×640 for VGA portait
- 240×320 for QVGA portrait
320×240 for QVGA landscape will be nice but not required
Mail your images to openzaurus-users mailing list .
Rules
Graphics should stay in combination with the Zaurus and OpenSource.
Allowed formats: SVG, XCF or PNG.
Graphics should be provided on any OSI approved license (GPL/LGPL/BSD are one of them).
Deadline: 1st April 2006.
Marcin Juszkiewicz February 16th, 2006
Two weeks ago developer of Watapon ROM decided to stop its development. It was the only one distribution made specially for poodle (SL-5600) machines.
In OpenZaurus team we are unable to help poodle users due to lack of hardware (no device) and/or lack of developer with that Zaurus model. We release images which are expected to work because it does not take much time but sooner or later it could finish in abadonland…
Week ago few poodle users started thread on OESF forum about getting poodle machine for OpenZaurus team. Anyone can help - if you are user (or developer) then you can help with testing images, you can donate cash (or machine)…
When we get poodle we first work on getting current 2.4 based images works as they should, then device will be used to help with 2.6 kernel support (currently it should have SD/MMC, CF, USB working (and probably more) with small tweaks if not out-of-box).
Richard 'RP' Purdie January 9th, 2006
Some information about keymaps on 2.6 kernels has been created at:
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/howto/c7×0-and-cxx00-26-kernel-information/
In due course, further information about using 2.6 kernels may get added to this page.
