Re: proposed use of 2.4.21 as 3900 Intimate kernel

Hi WIlliam,

Good to hear that you're making progress with the 39xx, and good to see
some activity happening with intimate once again.

I'm not sure that all the ipaq specific patches and drivers have made it
into the mainstream kernel, so you may find that the debian kernel
sources lack support for touchscreens and buttons and things like that.

Debianising the kernel is an excellent idea, and intimate's got it's own
.deb repositary on the hh.org webserver, but the amount of time and
effort required to keep up-to-date with the latest iPAQ kernels has
always prevented us from doing it in the past... These days we tend to
just steal whatever kernel familiar is using for convenience.

If you do feel like making a debianised version, just say the word and
we'll drop it into the .deb feed on hh.org

Thanks,

Jim / Tangent

William Moser wrote:

>Hi,
>
>For those interested, the work on making Intimate run
>on 39xx series machines is going well, although a boot
>loader issue arises with the --hh28 kernel. I'm
>considering making the Debian kernel-source-2.4.21
>package the basis for this version of Intimate
>(2.4.21-rmk1-pxa1 to be specific). I would appreciate
>any feedback on the advantages or disadvantages of
>going with a strictly Debian based kernel vs. one of
>the -hhxx family. It seems to me that using a
>Debianized source package is more in line with the
>"Debian way".
>
>B
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Received on Tue Dec 23 12:54:31 2003