OOO Newsletter 2005.08 released

mickeyl August 24th, 2005

This newsletter sums up the recent development in Bitbake, OpenEmbedded, OE-based Linux distributions, Opie, and GPE.

TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005

Marcin Juszkiewicz August 2nd, 2005

I want to inform you that OpenEmbedded and OpenZaurus took first two positions in TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 contest for Free Software projects, which improve Linux for mobile computers.

More info

Howto get r21 kernel on collie

Marcin Juszkiewicz July 27th, 2005

Method of upgrading OZ 3.5.3 into r21 kernel:

  1. install OZ 3.5.3 with default kernel (may be skipped if you already have 3.5.3)
  2. add upgrades/collie into ipkg.conf
  3. run ipkg update;ipkg upgrade to get r21 kernel modules installed
  4. copy r21 kernel from “upgrades/collie” into CF card and flash it (ONLY kernel)
  5. boot Zaurus and be happy user of OZ 3.5.3 with r21 kernel

That method works for me with plain OZ 3.5.3 (opie-image + 64/0 kernel). To upgrade I used r21 kernel from “upgrades/collie”.

Collie kernel update

Marcin Juszkiewicz June 30th, 2005

Today I pushed fixed 2.4.18 kernel for collie (Zaurus 5000/5500) into 3.5.3 “upgrades” feed. This version has fixed all Suspend/Resume problems:

  • suspend on right-arrow button
  • suspend on menu button
  • suspend after resume

Update to that kernel is HIGHLY recommended.

Md5sums:

4aef6f1fac09668220b34f7a30f24c92  zImage-collie-24-8-r21.bin
a46961d53eaa38ad2aa6cd09fa8c49b1  zImage-collie-32-0-r21.bin
24415d7794140e1854deaf400e5d437c  zImage-collie-32-32-r21.bin
dadb8903d76bddbb15f69cb0c3b62948  zImage-collie-40-24-r21.bin
9bbfb575237c2762e1aead2926f37383  zImage-collie-48-16-r21.bin
9ded1bbb4a326f9984997ea107fbda55  zImage-collie-58-6-r21.bin
e179cc1991729d931f47d8031843aa0a  zImage-collie-64-0-r21.bin

Complete instruction how to make it is available here.

OOO Newsletter 2005.05 released

mickeyl May 4th, 2005

This newsletter sums up the recent development in OpenZaurus, OpenEmbedded, Familiar Linux, BitBake, Opie, and GPE.

OpenZaurus for C3000 and C1000 released

mickeyl April 30th, 2005

I’m proud to present OpenZaurus 3.5.3/Opie for the Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) and Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) devices. Special thanks go to the OZ developers Jose Bernado Silva and Jonathan ‘Noodles’ McDowell who were leading the Akita (C1000) and Spitz (C3000) porting efforts.

See the CXK specific ReleaseNotes

Cheers,

Michael ‘Mickey’ Lauer OZ 3.5.3 ReleaseMeister

How to help

Marcin Juszkiewicz April 28th, 2005

Recently we got many users registered - thats great. They want to contribute to the OZ project and I want to say that documentation would be a good way to help out.

On OESF forum we have dedicated subforum where few threads started to get some docs collected:

Many users complain that installation guides are not good, that they lack some infos etc - we need someone who will look more into them and atleast reformat them to look similiar (instruction for 5600 is nice formatted).

wellenreiter in upgrades

Marcin Juszkiewicz April 27th, 2005

Opie-wellenreiter was pushed into “upgrades” feed. This version will work with OZ 3.5.3 kernels without warnings. Patch was taken from OPIE CVS by Paul Eggleton (Familiar distribution).

machine feeds

Marcin Juszkiewicz April 23rd, 2005

Many users complain about missing libqte2 or libqpe1 packages. Thats because we build images before feed was split.

So edit your /etc/ipkg.conf and add one of those lines (choose the one for your Zaurus):

src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/collie
src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/poodle
src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/c7x0
src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/tosa

And update list of packages by using package manager function.

udev fix

Marcin Juszkiewicz April 21st, 2005

There is a bug in systems which run 2.6 kernel. First udev is started and then /dev/ is filled with many not needed entries by “devices” script (which is needed under 2.4). The fix is:

cd /etc/rcS.d
mv S03udev S06udev

After restart /dev/ directory will show only needed entries.

warning - some users reported problems with GPE and SD after it (OPIE works without problems)

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