Tosa Development Plan, where should dev effort go Options

[xjqian]

As most of your know the 6000L is an odd breed compared to other Zauri, esp the clamshells, where availability and dev activities are high. Hence Tosa ROM version is behind others except for OZ/Angstrom where the key dev. Hrw has the device.

Current Tosa ROM status in the other popular rom is pretty disappointing

PdaXrom: beta1
Cacko: None

I've been whining for a long time without contributing. Part of the reason is that I don't know where should my effort go. I have to admit that I'm not even close to software engineer in trade and pretty inexperienced in the whole thing. But I'm pretty confident in my learning ability to get some Tosa dev going.

For a starter, I'm interested to advance PdaXrom to a stable/usable 2.4 kernel, similar to what Meanie did for pdaXii. (weed out bugs, etc. ) Who else is interested and have time to contribute? We probably need some sort of infrastructure (svn, emaillist, bugtracker, etc.) Could we borrow what's available in the PdaXrom site? Should we get together and form a team?

Btw, anybody interested in a Cacko ROM for Tosa?

I can probably commit half an hour per day for the project after my thesis defense.

[gfdsa]

We probably need some sort of infrastructure (svn, emaillist, bugtracker, etc.)

n/p to bring it up and manage as soon as there will be a team to use it

[adf]

my .02 us would be to:
work on the pdax kernel (is beta 1 missing anything from beta3? patch it?)

see if big SD support can be done

work on using the hdimage from pdaxii13 on sd (or cf if necessary)

get the wifi working with the wifi applet (or script up another one--ncurses even would do, if it was effective)

then all would be well..


besides the kernel and the sd module and the wireless.... what really would need a major overhaul?

I take it Angstrom for the 6000 isn't looking hopeful?

[gagware]

I take it Angstrom for the 6000 isn't looking hopeful?

I don't have any experience (yet) with Angstrom, but it looks very promising. Furthermore I just was browsing through the images and I saw this morning a new (testing) version was added...for the SL-6000 a.k.a. Tosa!

Can be found here:

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unsta.../20070331/tosa/

When I find time to test it on my unit I'll post the results...this won't be very soon unfortunately though. I'm anxious to hear what you guys find out about it.

Actually, now I think of it - can anybody tell me whether or not I need to change the partitions before flashing? I think from looking at the files it's not necessary (i.e. it looks very much like the OZ install files), but you can never be too sure. Right now it runs OpenZaurus 3.5.4.rc2, I never changed my partitions myself. Before it just ran the stock Sharp rom.
I already found the unit needs to have standard flash partitioning (from installation instructions from another model), but I am not sure if OZ changed anything.