I would presume that ARM will be a supported architecture in this next stable Debian release but what are the chances of us seeing (almost) complete support for the clamshell (or otherwise) Zauri out-of-the-box , with optional GUI installer, in the ARM port?
I suppose this would depend upon Z support being in the mainline kernel source? Is it still not in yet- I don't know as I've not compiled Linux in some time. What is holding it back from being integrated?
Is anyone here running sid on a c3x00? How does it run compared to pdaXrom or OZ? What doesn't work (apart from video accel of course) or what was difficult in setting up if anything?
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QUOTE(danboid @ Aug 29 2006, 06:04 PM)
I would presume that ARM will be a supported architecture in this next stable Debian release but what are the chances of us seeing (almost) complete support for the clamshell (or otherwise) Zauri out-of-the-box , with optional GUI installer, in the ARM port?
I suppose this would depend upon Z support being in the mainline kernel source? Is it still not in yet- I don't know as I've not compiled Linux in some time. What is holding it back from being integrated?
Is anyone here running sid on a c3x00? How does it run compared to pdaXrom or OZ? What doesn't work (apart from video accel of course) or what was difficult in setting up if anything?
I suppose this would depend upon Z support being in the mainline kernel source? Is it still not in yet- I don't know as I've not compiled Linux in some time. What is holding it back from being integrated?
Is anyone here running sid on a c3x00? How does it run compared to pdaXrom or OZ? What doesn't work (apart from video accel of course) or what was difficult in setting up if anything?
I would guess about zero.
debian arm is built for Acorns, I think
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ has this info:
Why no Z? Noone interesting in adding it, nearly no kernel hackers outside of OpenEmbedded team (2.6 kernel hackers I mean). And even if it would be supported in any way then I suppose that only sl-c3x00 would be supported as Debian use too much disk space.
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Currently, work is being done to add support for a number of new sub-architectures. For version 4.0 of Debian (known as etch), we intend to support:
netwinder (footbridge): we fully support Netwinder machines and Simtec's CATS evaluation board.
iop32x: we intend to support some IOP32x based Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, such as the Thecus N2100 and GLAN Tank.
ixp4xx: we support the popular Linksys NSLU2 device.
rpc: we provide a kernel and incomplete debian-installer support but this platform lacks testing.
s3c2410: we provide a kernel but there is no integration with debian-installer.
netwinder (footbridge): we fully support Netwinder machines and Simtec's CATS evaluation board.
iop32x: we intend to support some IOP32x based Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, such as the Thecus N2100 and GLAN Tank.
ixp4xx: we support the popular Linksys NSLU2 device.
rpc: we provide a kernel and incomplete debian-installer support but this platform lacks testing.
s3c2410: we provide a kernel but there is no integration with debian-installer.
Why no Z? Noone interesting in adding it, nearly no kernel hackers outside of OpenEmbedded team (2.6 kernel hackers I mean). And even if it would be supported in any way then I suppose that only sl-c3x00 would be supported as Debian use too much disk space.
QUOTE(danboid @ Aug 29 2006, 07:04 PM)
I would presume that ARM will be a supported architecture in this next stable Debian release but what are the chances of us seeing (almost) complete support for the clamshell (or otherwise) Zauri out-of-the-box , with optional GUI installer, in the ARM port?
I suppose this would depend upon Z support being in the mainline kernel source? Is it still not in yet- I don't know as I've not compiled Linux in some time. What is holding it back from being integrated?
Is anyone here running sid on a c3x00? How does it run compared to pdaXrom or OZ? What doesn't work (apart from video accel of course) or what was difficult in setting up if anything?
I suppose this would depend upon Z support being in the mainline kernel source? Is it still not in yet- I don't know as I've not compiled Linux in some time. What is holding it back from being integrated?
Is anyone here running sid on a c3x00? How does it run compared to pdaXrom or OZ? What doesn't work (apart from video accel of course) or what was difficult in setting up if anything?
i am running a compete debian testing ( 2.9 gb )
include X support on my C-3200
( c-3000 only with microdrive )
i used a openembedded kernel , as flash-image , a mixed gpe-/opie image
with pda-xrom-uboot as bootloader , ( 123 mb on /dev/mtd5
)on microdrive is an bootstrapped debian arm upgraded to testing
and as X-server works naitive compiled xserver-fbdev from the oe distrib
( tslib,zaurusd some and other utils are also naitive ) ( approx 12 hours compiletime
)maybe i will create some debian packs for my addons ..
greeting
Viking
i am now working for debian-alsa-support-wm8750 and better tslib
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