[iPAQ] Re: Documentation, battery, kernel (was: Latest versions)

Hi Nicolas,

I've answered the questions that I know the answer to below.

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:27, you wrote:
> First, where can I find the bootloader documentation? My guess is that by
> default it boots /boot/zImage with /boot/params and some autodetected MTD
> parameters as command line: is it right? How can I select different options
> for one boot only? Is the bootloader source code available?

See http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BootLoader

> BTW, where are the archives for
> this list? <URL: http://www.handhelds.org/pipermail/ipaq/ > is not up to
> date at all, and <URL: http://www.handhelds.org/hypermail/ipaq/current/ >,
> which is linked from the subscription form, does not exist.)

They are still down at the moment. You can pick them up on http://gmane.org
though - search for the name of each list.

> I tried and failed to find the source code for the Familiar distribution:
> the packages specs and patches. The CVS/svn directories at handhelds.org
> are almost empty. Where can I get them? What I most importantly want is the
> kernel patches and .config.

Familiar is built using OpenEmbedded - http://www.openembedded.org. All of the
sources can be retrieved and cross-compiled using it. See also
http://handhelds.org/sources.html

CVS is the easiest place to get the kernel source with patches applied. I'm
not sure if anyone is maintaining the patches, although I sent a big patch to
someone recently and I understand he is working on it. (I would recommend
just using CVS, it's easier). The kernel configs used for each machine are in
OE.

Cheers,
Paul
Received on Tue Jan 04 2005 - 22:17:45 EST