Re[2]: Want Familiar 0.8.4rc3 for h4100?

Hello Markus,

Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 7:14:34 PM, you wrote:

> Hey h4100-people,

> first to you Paul,
> I've taken the recent Familiar 0.8.4rc3 GPE-release for the H2200 with
> the latest CVS-kernel and everything is looking very good to me.
> Booting fine, applications work and the all over feeling is great :)

  Nice! But you don't say that appbuttons work out of the box, because
they don't, right? And with Opie, situation with buttons even worse.

> So I would be very interested in your h4100 release. But I have to
> admit, that I haven't seen much points which would have to be changed
> between the h2200 and the h4100 release. So I would be very interested
> to hear from your "cool development tasks" maybe I can contribute.

  You're right, and it is in fact great shame that each device plays
on its own and that distro(s) allow that, and we have separate image
for each model, with differences (calculated in size) being less than
1%. And most annoying difference stray from arbitrary choosen button
map - just almost every port invents its own. Anyway, here's the list
of machine scecific packages as 0.8.4rc3:

atmelwlandriver-3.4.1.0-r0
base-files-3.0.14-r48
gpe-session-scripts-0.67-r0
handhelds-pxa-2.6-2.6.16-hh5+cvs20060725-r1
hostap-modules-0.3.9-r7
libqpe-opie-1.2.1-r0
matchbox-panel-0.9.2-r13
opie-pics-1.2.1-r0
opie-taskbar-1.2.1-r0
orinoco-modules-0.13e-r4
pcmcia-cs-3.2.8-r22
qte-2.3.10-r28
sysvinit-2.86-r24
task-bootstrap-1.0-r28
tslib-0.0cvs20051212-r34
xserver-kdrive-0.0cvs20050207-r11

   Half of these packages are not h4000 sepcific per se, but rather
QVGA keyboardles devices specific. Other few are driver packages. All
in all, of these only base-files maybe somewhat device specific (due
to fstab).

  Well, back to topic - I would really encourage you to try building
Familiar images from source using OpenEmbedded. Userland is what makes
Linux on handheldnot just cool, but useful, and we need to deal with
source to fix issues and make it better. Approach of hacking binary
images is not scalable. And as I told, I have patches to deal at least
with buttons issues, which I'm pushing upstream (and that's not really
cool part of stuff - to go thru bureaucracy ;-) ).

  How to get source is described here: http://familiar.handhelds.org/#build
Just keep in mind that OE downloads source tarballs from the net, so
you'll need a bit of traffic. That was a concern for me, as have a
monthly traffic limit from my ISP and pay for teh surplus, so I wrote
custom download handlers, which stop before each dowbload and let me
check my archive if I have a package already (and to make a synlink to
existing kernel checkout instead of downloading another copy - that
accounts for good half of traffic OE generates).

> To all others,
> the sound, yes the sound ...
> I managed it for the 2.6.12 kernel, so now it's time to get it to work
> with the latest cvs-sources,
> I can't promise much, because I'm not really a kernel-hacker. But I'll
> see what I can do, and let you guys know what's going on, as fast as
> possible, or better I'll give a status until the end of the next week,
> because having sound is one of the most important things for me.
> I hope I won't reinvent the wheel, if the guy who wrote Paul has already
> done the work.

  Ok, AndyP says he already has almost done driver. But there's IrDA,
BT, WiFi stuff just in case ;-)

> Oh and one thing, Paul you did incredibly great work on the suspend
> issue! :)

  I already found another, non-fatal, but unleasant issue:
http://www.handhelds.org/~bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1713 . If you'll
see it too, please add comment to that bug.

> Greetz
> Markus

-- 
Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml_at_gmail.com