Re: 2.6 kernel on iPAQ 5500

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?

Matus
Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 08:30:54 EDT