Re: Anybody still active on porting for this device ?

Olivier Berger schrieb:
> Mike Mestnik <cheako_at_visi.com> writes:
>
>
>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:03:33PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
>>
>>> fox <fox-6300_at_monologic.net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Helo!
>>>> Absolutely, the linux-omap kernel is version 2.6.24 and gpe is 2.8 -
>>>> also i read something about familiar on
>>>> http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download.phtml :
>>>>
>>>> "GPE is available for Familiar Linux as ready to run images for a few
>>>> iPAQ devices.
>>>> Choose the GPE option when getting an image from the latest Familiar
>>>> release <http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/latest/>. Currently
>>>> GPE in Familiar is quite outdated and there are no updated GPE
>>>> packages any more in the unstable feed. In general Familiar is
>>>> obsolete unless you use a very old iPAQ (h3xxx)."
>>>>
>>>> So what's the Replacement?
>>>>
>>> Angstrom ? http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/
>>>
>>> Just my 2 cents,
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, this is indeed a route we should pursue. I'd like to send an
>> email to the dev list over there, but I'm unable to subscribe
>> currently. Can any one forward this message on?
>>
>>
>
> Done (too bad, forgot to add the CCs to the forwarded message
> :( and it doesn't seem to be rendered right at
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-devel/2008-February/001744.html).
>
> Anyway, this one should pass, so I hope people will be able to comment
> and get both groups ;)
>
>
>> I am hoping our interest in building their world for our handheld will
>> be appreciated.
>>
>> Any hope in getting the [1]downloads section populated?
>> 1. http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/releases/2007.12/images/h6300
>>
>>
>
> Since http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ seems down, it's difficult
> to point to the wiki :(
>
>
>> What is your build system like, would it be difficult to include our
>> handheld?
>>
>>
>
> AFAIK, Angstrom is using OE (http://www.openembedded.org/ also down
> from what I can see), and set of rules which help isolate specific
> parts related to machine, vs more generic application-oriented stuff.
>
> I think a port of Angstrom to h63xx devices should be great, but I
> have no real abilities to help wrt embedded stuff, hardware support
> implementation, kernel and stuff.
>
> But would be willing to help testing, for sure ;)
>
> My 2 cents,
>
>
I try to compile openembedded angstrom's gpe and world for a while now,
but everytime i cure an error message that prevents building, the next
comes up. it's f*ckin' itsybitsy, because there's not really much
documentation on bitbake. I also tried to crosscompile an 2.6.24 kernel
for the h6300 - but it seems that most modules necessary für the h6300
to work fails to build. that's not that funny :)

i think there must be a way to bitbake both, gpe and stuff from
openembedded and your kernel.
so there are some questions open.
- where to put that kernel sources in the openembedded tree?
- build dependencies for bitbake/oe/kernel?

for the ones using the 'how to compile blah tutorial' from
openembedded.org :
if you create your stuff/build/conf directory, they mention that you
should copy local.conf.default (or something alike) from openembedded to
your new conf directory. i did that, and it wont work. somehow. but if
you take the bitbake.conf file (from the same directory as
local.conf.something resides) and copy that to your build/conf that
should work (somewhat more). but i think that file needs to be tweaked
for your paths and stuff. so if someone managed to actually bake
something with the bitbake system and openembedded please tell how!
we should write that down in a howto and put it into the wiki.

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>
> Best regards,
>
>
Received on Sat Feb 09 2008 - 05:17:57 EST