Re: Are this list and project dead?

Hi Harald!

i saw some screenshots of the running linux-system on a loox. i also read
some information about dualboot and booting from sd-cards. where are the
problems? which parts does not run at the time? is the actual linux-system
ready to use if someone is able to get it running? is it possible to just
create a single image of a already configured system which easy to install
(copy) on a sd-card? which parts would work, and which not? if i understand
the actual situation, we have to programm the right drivers for the
linux-kernel to run the loox with e.g. opie (familiar) from handhelds.org.
have i understand it correctly?

sorry for that many questions, i only want to enlight my mind about the
issues ;-).

bye johannes

On Thursday 18 January 2007 14:47, Istra wrote:
> Hi Harald,
>
> I started this thread a couple off month ago with some
> other guys, but unfortunately we all lost our focus on
> this project. I did a lot of hardware debugging and
> made several schematics of the LOOX hardware (I bought
> a broken device and removed the components from the
> PCB to be able to reverse engineer the schematic). I
> have also build a JTAG interface into my second LOOX
> so I am able to do single step debugging. Finally I
> started debugging of the Xlinix Coolrunner chips.
> Since we do not get any support from Siemens/Fujitsu
> (OEM product by HTC) it is very difficult and time
> consuming debug the hole device from scratch. We need
> more information about the hardware/interfaces and
> GPIOs of the device otherwise we will never be
> successful. Also I think a bigger core-team with very
> skilled Linux-freaks and ARM-experts (who are able to
> debug some of the windows DLLs) is necessary.
> Unfortunately I can do only the hardware debugging
> because my Linux programming skills are very limited.
> A disadvantage is also that the LOOX720 is very small
> compared to the IPAQ/HP community.
> BTW I also bought a Nokia 770, it is a very nice
> device but I think the Maemo/Hildon/Linux-operating
> system is kind of bottleneck, even with the first not
> stable running Linux-versions on the LOOX720 I had a
> much better "touch and feel".
>
> BR
> Michael (Istra)
>
>
>
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