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Title: Kernel 2.6
Post by: meyerm on August 05, 2005, 07:25:59 pm: Hi,

I know the 5000 and 5500 are not usable with a 2.6 kernel because of the binary only sd-interface. But what about the 5600? Can openzaurus be used with a 2.6 on this device?

Thanks
Marcel
Title: Kernel 2.6
Post by: Tom61 on August 05, 2005, 10:13:03 pm: Quote
Hi,

I know the 5000 and 5500 are not usable with a 2.6 kernel because of the binary only sd-interface. But what about the 5600? Can openzaurus be used with a 2.6 on this device?

Thanks
Marcel
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Actually, higher 2.6 kernels can load a module from a different kernel, if a certain module is compiled in, and the right options are passed. It was in testing with 2.6.9, so it's probably stable by now. I assume this could load a 2.4 binary module, if you passed everything it needed to function. I've never needed to do something like that (and now no longer have a Z), so I don't know versitile the module for different-kernel loading is.
Title: Kernel 2.6
Post by: MorphiusFaydal on August 05, 2005, 10:29:21 pm: isn't there a project fork of OZ to put 2.6 and Collie and Poodle?

it's linked off of their page.
Title: Kernel 2.6
Post by: koen on August 06, 2005, 04:45:08 am: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lenz/zaurus/ (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lenz/zaurus/)
Title: Kernel 2.6
Post by: MorphiusFaydal on August 09, 2005, 02:55:10 am: Quote
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lenz/zaurus/ (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lenz/zaurus/)
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that's the one!
Title: Kernel 2.6
Post by: meyerm on August 09, 2005, 02:15:51 pm: Unfortunately he is currently not very active because of work to be done at other OS projects. But at least, there is hope :-)