Re: X50v and IrDA

I don't want to send contact info to the list, but I'll forward you all
my correspondences with Mark so you can see what we've been up to.

For the last couple of months I haven't been actively working on the
port, as I've been working (saving to go to russia, partially), so most
of my work recently has been in helping get what I know to others who
can work on it. =]

Also, those who want to ask me more specific (faster) questions, you can
reach me the following ways:

AIM: taxilianatwork
MSN: richardb_at_byu.edu
Y!: taxilianatwork
ICQ: 2749610
IRC: occasionally I am TaxilianLaptop or Taxilian on irc.freenode.net,
when I remember to log in. I'm not usually in a channel, but you can PM
me if I'm on.

I might have time saturday afternoon to try to find my booting kernel
and get some images up. Sounds like there are a few other serial cables
floating around, so I'd definitely like to get other people working on it.

Richard

Mark Co-Dyre wrote:

> JeDi,
>
> Short and sweet...
> I'm working on the x50v port as well. I haven't got the kernel booting
> yet. Although, I'm in this for the long haul; I'm going to get this
> thing working or destroy my x50v trying.
>
> Richard,
>
> I'd like to help out... I'll see what I can do about setting up a
> mirror before you leave in November :( Sniff Sniff...
>
> Mark Gesing,
>
> I hope your out there listening:
>
> I'd like to help in probing Dell to generate more information to
> further the support of this project.
> Would you be so kind to please send me a list of your contacts made
> from Dell and be willing to write a brief synopsis of your progress
> made to date so far. For example... are any good leads to follow up
> on? Who did you felt were the most influential people that you should
> be nudging for info. What is their take or standpoint on having a
> port out there for the Dell x50v? Do they want one, are they impartial
> to it, or are they totally against it? I feel this this infomation
> such as this would help me formulate an angle of attack and keep me
> from wasting time on avenues to dead ends already traveled.
>
> Regards...
>
> Mark
>
> On 9/16/05, *JeDi* <jeroen.dierckx_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:jeroen.dierckx_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Some questions before you are offline for two years :-)
>
> We haven't had much time the last couple of weeks, but we modified the
> irda driver of the kernel so it automatically activates the irda
> console in the kernel (initrd is still needed because it needs
> /dev/console). We tried this with two laptops, and we are able to see
> the kernel booting through irda on the other laptop, and we are able
> to login (agetty, ...).
>
> So if we want this to work with our x50v pdas, we have to get a irda
> driver working for the machine. If we use the kernel26 from your site,
> only one FIR driver shows up, so we tried that, withouth luck. We
> tried using SIR after that, but that didn't work either...
>
> So my questions:
> - Do you or anyone else have experience with irda on the x50v? Can we
> find some specs for it in the documents on your site (tmp dir)?
> - We still weren't able to boot a kernel and get output on the
> framebuffer. You said it was working with the vsfb driver, but we
> can't get it to work. If you could provide us a kernel and initrd (and
> default.txt and haret if they aren't the fisherss ones) that is
> verified to work with console output on the x50v, we would be very
> glad. If you can give me the source for that working kernel (or the
> .config if it's built with the kernel26 of your site), that would be
> even better!
>
> I really hope we can get some progress before you leave, cause I don't
> think there is someone else working on the x50v port, is it?
>
> Thanks!
> Greetz,
> JeDi
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Received on Fri Sep 16 2005 - 12:22:10 EDT