Re: 2.6 kernel on iPAQ 5500

Matus Harvan wrote:

> Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>
>>
>> As far as I know, there is work on the 2.6 kernel, for the following
>> devices:
>> h2200, h4000, h1900, Dell Axim, Asus, Rover.
>>
>> For h5xxx, there hasn't been much progress because of a lack of
>> available manpower, that's it.
>>
>> Anyone wishing to start working on 2.6 for h5xxx just has to try, and
>> share questions and issues with the h5400 and kernel-discuss (when
>> it's a device independent question) mailing lists. That should be all
>> the easier as this device is well supported on Linux 2.4. It shoud be
>> just a matter of porting existing drivers to 2.6.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael.
>>
> Hi Micheal,
>
> I already have tried the 2.6.6 on h55000 and would be willing to help
> with the porting, but I'm not really sure where to start, what drivers
> are needed for this iPAQ, ...
> I mean I do not know which modules have to be ported or are working
> and just have to be loaded to get all the devices working.
>
> I already tried to look for modules obtained with lsmod on the 2.4
> kernel from familiar unstable and modprobe them, but many of them
> failed/were not found at all.
>
> What is the relation between the handhelds.org kernel and the
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ kernel? Because both seem to be concerned
> with the same thing (ARM). Is someone merging patches from arm.linux
> cvs into the handhelds.org cvs? Should I work with the handhelds.org
> kernel or arm.linux kernel?
>
RMK seems to be releasing patches these days by giving them to Linus, so
there is not an RMK patch series for handhelds.org to sync with. Last
week, we had a 6M diff between hh.org and kernel.org for 2.6.6. Most of
this was new drivers for various handhelds. We have a few more core
modules that need to be designed/redesigned so that they will be
acceptable upstream, and some debugging, and then we can start reducing
the size of the hh.org patch.

Jamey
Received on Thu Jun 24 08:17:40 2004