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

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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?

[xjqian]

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

That's exactly what I want to start with, patch beta1 with beta3, then diff beta3 with Meanie's pdaXii and squash bugs. I don't want to overhaul, it's just there're too many pesting bugs in beta1.

[radiochickenwax]

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?

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

I'd be interested in such a thing, but I could only contribute about the same amount of time unfortunately.. possibly slightly more so, depending.

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

That's exactly what I want to start with, patch beta1 with beta3, then diff beta3 with Meanie's pdaXii and squash bugs. I don't want to overhaul, it's just there're too many pesting bugs in beta1.

Some unorganized thoughts on the matter:

Personally, I'm not very happy with beta3 compared to beta1. Having gotten a 3200 expecting beta3 to be much better than beta1 on a 6000, I was sorely disappointed.
Furthermore, pdaxii13 is largely a set of patches for problems that AFAIK exist *only* in beta3 (i.e clamshells,), so a lot of these problems are not applicable to beta1 on the tosa.

The 2.6 kernel series is a whole different story, and it's where the "official" bug fixes are headed as far as I can tell. It's really won my vote so far over beta3 with or without Meanie's patches. If we could at least get the tosa to *run* a 2.6 kernel in pdaxrom, then we'd all be on the same page as far as the ROM is concerned. And there's a considerable number of problems to face even if anyone were to get that far.

However variety is the spice of life, and many people prefer the "stability" of the 2.4 kernel to the enhancements that come with 2.6.

IMHO, trying to get u-boot to load on the tosa would usher in the 2.6 kernel series, and would solve many problems. It's also the path that pdaxrom sorely needs. This could be a good start to solve a lot of problems missing in the 2.4 series, notably the large SD support. That's unfortunately beyond me right now as the 3200 has nearly taken away all of my 'zaurus time' from the 6000... I'm still trying to find a good balance in this respect.

A Suggestion:

We'd need a more stable host for enhancements than this forum: perhaps pdaxrom.org or tyrannozaurus.com? pdaxrom has moved it's SVN to sourceforge.net.... that might be a good place to start as well.

Is anyone still interested in this?

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Interested? Definitely. Able to port uboot to the 6000---well it is theorically possible that I could do it...kind of in the way an infinite number of monkeys can produce shakespeare, only it might take longer because I'm doing other stuff, too.