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Now 3.5.3 has been "out the door" for a while, is there any progress towards 3.5.4?
Am especially interested in a version for the 860.
Paul
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Now 3.5.3 has been "out the door" for a while, is there any progress towards 3.5.4?
Am especially interested in a version for the 860.
Paul
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Bump.
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A snapshot/RC release would be nice
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A snapshot/RC release would be nice
Seconded. Well, the release notes in the wiki already mention 3.5.4, so there's hope.
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I dunno.
It seems to me that people keep pushing for fast oz releases then bitching when the release is still clearly unstable. Give 'em time.
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I dunno.
It seems to me that people keep pushing for fast oz releases then bitching when the release is still clearly unstable. Give 'em time.
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I agree I am just eager since I just got my c3000 and am having trouble with 3.5.3 so I am hoping to get 3.5.4 soon.
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I dunno.
It seems to me that people keep pushing for fast oz releases then bitching when the release is still clearly unstable. Give 'em time.
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It seems to me that a -current/-unstable release, constantly evolving along the stable release would allow much more testing before a release...
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I'll try to build some official RCs this week.
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I'll try to build some official RCs this week.
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I will try it on my c3000 and report on the results good and bad (hopefully more good than bad ) Keep up the great work guys this would only be a geek toy pda without guys like you who turn it into a mini Linux laptop. I use this for some of my INFOSEC assessments it rocks!
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Mickey, that's great news, thanks a lot. I know that this is asking too much, but it would be great to have a GPE image for the Akita as well.
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Update #2: Ooops...This post actually has nothing to do with OZ 3.5.4. However, some of asm-nai's builds are using a 2.6.14 kernel, which may interest some.
Update: Forgot to mention that this is for the C3000 only. Sorry for any confusion!
asm-nai (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showuser=7497) appears to have already made available some 2.6.14-based OpenZaurus builds for the C3000, with both Opie and GPE: http://www.naismith.sakura.ne.jp/feed/rom/ (http://www.naismith.sakura.ne.jp/feed/rom/)
(from WanderingZaurusWiki (http://www.naismith.sakura.ne.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?OpenZaurus))
* Caveats *
WanderingZaurusWiki is in Japanese.
I have been unable to test these builds for myself yet, so use at your own risk. I am not even sure if they are in English and/or Japanese.
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I see a directory structure at: http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/ (http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/)
Guess that's just a skeleton and the RC build has not happened yet?
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
Akita/GPE please.
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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Spitz please with Opie thank you.
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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Tosa GPE.
Thanks
Adalberto
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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Collie GPE, please!
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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+1 vote for Collie/Opie. Thanks!
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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Poodle with GPE,
thank you
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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akita/opie
akita/gpe
and everything_else/anything_else
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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I'd vote for collie/opie. Thanks anyway
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Tosa - either (gpe or opie)!
Thanks!
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The RC build is underway atm. I'll upload images during the next 48 hours. Any preferences of machine/image combination?
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Borzoi/Opie would be great.
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I promise to test and give feedback on Opie/Akita and GPE/Akita if you build those images. I'll try and test Opie/Collie and GPE/Collie but no promises...(Now where did that compactflash card get to...?). Thanks for all the hard work!
-John
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I'll add a vote for collie, either opie or gpe...
Looks like Tosa is up now for those that use it. (http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/sl6000/)
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You are right, the tosa stuff is there. But right now its so slow to download (.3k). Thanks for all the great work OZ guys!
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I'll vote for poodle, both OPIE & GPE.
Anybody have any idea when, after the new release is official, it would flow down to hentges?
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I'll vote for poodle, both OPIE & GPE.
Anybody have any idea when, after the new release is official, it would flow down to hentges?
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I'll second that!
radioz
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Anybody have any idea when, after the new release is official, it would flow down to hentges?
Man it isn't even out yet! Please note that this is _not_ going to be a release, just a release _candidate_. Nothing for the faint at heart.
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Nothing for the faint at heart.
Actually it's pretty good - I've been running the RC for a while now and I've not noticed any issues.
Anybody have any idea when, after the new release is official, it would flow down to hentges?
Have a word with Coredump and see how busy he is...
Si
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You are right, the tosa stuff is there. But right now its so slow to download (.3k). Thanks for all the great work OZ guys!
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I downloaded it just now, only opie image, kernel and updater script. Download speed was strange, few bytes/second and then without apparent reason it jump to a hundred kilobutes/s... strange...
Anyway, I'll give it a try a soon as I'm back "home" !
Do anyone know if packages from 3.5.3's feed will work ?
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Is the spitz on its way? I hope
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Aye, I wouldn't mind giving a Spitz Opie/GPE image a whirl.
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hi there,
first of all i also thank the oz team
for their work. here is my short
feedback:
i tested opie/gpe for several hours.
1) the greatest advantage of this rom
is speed, its really impressive...
in connection with an X environment
like gpe and a new kernel to come
it has a great future and will
probably be my first choice.
2) i fear that the "disturbing small
yellow drawing lines" bug (which also
appeared in 3.5.3) will detain some
users to enter this rom.. its interesting
that there are no problems if one chooses
blue color in sketcchbook...
other problems: sound in opie, crashes
of konqueror, rotation in gpe, representation
of icons (clock) in gpe etc etc
malik
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May I put in a vote for 3.5.4/GPE for the collie please?
I have been using the GPE versions of OZ 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 in conjunction with Klaus Weidner's pocketworkstation (debian/sarge) on an SD: most extra programmes, such as TeX, xdvi, xpdf etc, can be run directly in the GPE x-windows environment via his command "Cdr". This seems preferable to running pocketworkstation on in its own, even with a matchbox window manager, or of running it through opie and xqt. I hope that TeX, xdvi and xpdf will eventually be added to the OZ feed, since according to the last OE newsletter at least TeX is available through OE/bitbake. I am also looking forward to the latest version of minimo (with the forwards and backwards arrows working). To enable the escape and function keys for emacs and vi in 3.5.3/GPE, I had to comment out two lines near the end of kbdconfig in /etc/matchbox and remove the "keylaunch" ipkg (thank you, lardman).
Otherwise, GPE seems extremely nice. The other currently available x-windows rom for the collie, pdaxrom, appears at present not to be in a very usable state on a collie.
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The Spitz RC is now available. Thank you very much, Mickeyl!
Concerning md5: How neccesary is verification? What is the likelyhood of a corrupted download? What is to be done in the absence of posted md5sums to check against; download multiple times and compare?? Since OpenZaurus.org gives me widely varying thoroughput, with the occasional timeout, this concerns me greatly.
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I would certainly check the md5sums, this is the main point of failure when flashing.
I presume there aren't any available yet for the files?
You could ask on #openzaurus (or #oe but it's OT) and see if someone with access can create them.
Si
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I want to echo malik's praise for the OZ devs. OZ (both with opie and gpe)is really fast. And they keep making large leaps twords an killer final rom.
I would like to add one more bug. OZ is still unable to handle alarms on my tosa. Alarms (from calendar) work great as long as the system is awake, but it will not resume if suspended and give an alarm. Thats the bug that keeps me from giving OZ a much longer life on my Zaurus.
Todd
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Hmm, I think I'll create a bug/workaround thread for this kind of thing.
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15689 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15689)
Si
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Sorry I thought I renamed the files properly for spitz but I get an error message it is the wrong file. Can some one please point me to the post for what I am to rename what file to what file I did a search for rename .bin and did not get a hit.
Thanks
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http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/)
and choose your device from the Installation menu on the left-hand side.
That said, it looks like there's no HDD image included in this release, so just rename one of the *rootfs.tar.gz files to initrd.bin (depending on whether you want barebones bootstrap, GPE or opie) and place that on the CD/SD card along with the updater.sh (renamed to remove the .spitz) and the zImage.bin file (again renamed)
Si
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http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/ (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/)
and choose your device from the Installation menu on the left-hand side.
That said, it looks like there's no HDD image included in this release, so just rename one of the *rootfs.tar.gz files to initrd.bin (depending on whether you want barebones bootstrap, GPE or opie) and place that on the CD/SD card along with the updater.sh (renamed to remove the .spitz) and the zImage.bin file (again renamed)
Si
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Thank you the link is what confused me I started there and read "1) Download files: zImage.bin, initrd.bin, hdimage1.tgz, updater.sh. If the filenames are different, change them to the above or else the zaurus will not be able to find them. The filenames are somewhat case sensitive. Either use the capital I in zImage.bin, or all lower, or all caps." Now that I know I am not looking for the HDD image it should go more smoothly I was renaming the bootstrap to hdd and opie to initrd oops
Thanks again for the support and great distro.
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SL-C3000: Flashing an initrd.bin is not necessary in 3.5.4-RC (hence it isn't provided).
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Curious does the entire tree have to be rebuilt for each machine's ROM? Is that why it takes so long to get RCs and releases out?
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SL-C3000: Flashing an initrd.bin is not necessary in 3.5.4-RC (hence it isn't provided).
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Ok now I am confused so what do I rename the *rootfs.tar.gz file too if not initrd.bin? just want to make sure it works am very eager to get it working.
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Curious does the entire tree have to be rebuilt for each machine's ROM? Is that why it takes so long to get RCs and releases out?
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It depends on how you configured OE, but if you use multimachine.inc you can build (on a fast computer of course) OZ for all machines in about half a day (±12 hours). Sorting out the images and kernel + uploading and other small taks takes another day. If you don't use multimachine.inc you will probably spend 8 hours per device compiling.
That doesn't include testing on an actual device, though, which takes the most real time, since you have to do that manually instead of starting it in the morning and check the output the next day.
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SL-C3000: Flashing an initrd.bin is not necessary in 3.5.4-RC (hence it isn't provided).
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Ok now I am confused so what do I rename the *rootfs.tar.gz file too if not initrd.bin? just want to make sure it works am very eager to get it working.
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hdimage1.tgz
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Thank you I just got finished reading another post with the info it is flashed and working I am a broken record but thanks again guys.
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Hi Mickeyl, would you please add a 64-0 kernel for collie to the 3.5.4RC download area? Thanks!
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I wish there was a way of doing some kind of distributing computing to make a build farm for this sort of stuff. I know I have machines that could go into it.
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http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3....all-md5sums.txt (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/all-md5sums.txt) contain MD5 of all files.
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Hrw, if you have a chance, please regenerate the file. I've just uploaded the missing collie kernels.
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Hello,
any chance to get a 2.6 Image for my borzai?
I am not able to apply all the patches and build a new image...
354.rc1 with 2.6 for borzai would be nice for me.
regards
math
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I take it this is not a 2.6.x kernel then?:
http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/sl3100/ (http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4-RC/sl3100/)
Si
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no i tried the opie image and there is a 2.4 kernel working...
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so is there a release date set? or is it similar to debian "OZ releases when it's ready" ?
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The RCs are there so that people can test them and any final bugs can be ironed out before a release.
Have a look at the bugs in http://bugs.openembedded.org/ (http://bugs.openembedded.org/) and see what's been reported, etc.
Si
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Fixed release dates and projects solely consisting of people who work in their spare time don't really match.
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The RCs are there so that people can test them and any final bugs can be ironed out before a release.
Have a look at the bugs in http://bugs.openembedded.org/ (http://bugs.openembedded.org/) and see what's been reported, etc.
Si
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thats right, but where can i see the features that should be with 3.5.4... ?
I remember that 2.6 was on the list, but then removed. So I am unsure if 3.5.4RC1 for Bonzai should inlude 2.6 or not....
Somebody here how can give me a hint?
Regards
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The RCs are there so that people can test them and any final bugs can be ironed out before a release.
Have a look at the bugs in http://bugs.openembedded.org/ (http://bugs.openembedded.org/) and see what's been reported, etc.
Si
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thats right, but where can i see the features that should be with 3.5.4... ?
I remember that 2.6 was on the list, but then removed. So I am unsure if 3.5.4RC1 for Bonzai should inlude 2.6 or not....
Somebody here how can give me a hint?
Regards
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Hi,
So far as I can see this RC seems to work fine for my 6000sl except:
1) FN- plus keys do not work for the top row of the builting keyboard. e.g. 1,2..0 also no "!" but @#$%^&*() -+ are ok. Hmm, seesm as if the keyboard completely stoped resonding after FN+Caps or perhaps NUM....
2) segv's in konqueror but his is probably something else.
otherwise the WLAN stuff is FIXED at long last ,and that neat Wellenrieter tool functions fine too.
So far...
MR
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I remember that 2.6 was on the list, but then removed. So I am unsure if 3.5.4RC1 for Bonzai should inlude 2.6 or not....
3.5.4-RC for borzoi was with 2.4.20-crapix kernel
We released test images for borzoi with 2.6.14-git3 kernel - more info on openzaurus.org
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Anybody have any idea when, after the new release is official, it would flow down to hentges?
FWIW new images based on 3.5.4RC should be out next week for Collie, Akita and (hopefuly) Poodle.
I'm working on Akita ATM and 3.5.4RC looks/works/behaves very very nice.
Great work from the dev team there
There are a few minior issues which need to be worked out but nothing big or complicated. Most of the required work is polishing anyway
Are there any volunteers to beta-test the Poodle image?
If so please reply (or PM me) with your email address so I can notify you when the image is ready.
I will not release untested images and I do not own a Poodle.
Edit: Please note that this image will ship with Kernel 2.4
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Are there any volunteers to beta-test the Poodle image?
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I'd be willing to test both the OPIE & GPE images when they're ready. uncle[dot]grog[at]gmail[dot]com.
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Are there any volunteers to beta-test the Poodle image?
If so please reply (or PM me) with your email address so I can notify you when the image is ready.
I would be wiling to give a new hentges rom a shot.
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I want to inform, that I build 3.5.4 prefinal images and offer them for testing. But I have more strict rules then CoreDump - you have to sign by writing comment to "OZ 3.5.4 release plans" on OpenZaurus website and I'm sending URL to images.
Currently tests for collie (5000/5500) were provided and I'm building rest of them.
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Hi
I have poodle (sl-5600) and I'd be willing to beta test the new release. Just tried the 3.5.3, and had problems with the on/off and the unit wouldn't recover without a hard boot. Read lots of good things about OZ.. so curious to see if this fixes that issue, and perhaps some issues I've seen briefly with package management.
Thanks
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Just FYI, the "test" images hrw is providing have release quality. At least for the Opie images. GPE has some minor / cosmetic bugs which are hopefully removed when 3.5.4 comes out.
But even at this point, the quality is way better than of any previous 3.5.x release.
Even the kernel 2.6 stuff has excellent stability / usability and only some (known) minor quirks. Many thanks to RP aka Richard P. for his great work on the 2.6 front.
(Consider all your suspend / resume problems history on Akita / Spitz / Borzoi).
All in all 3.5.4 is going to be the best OZ ever
Note: The above is true for Akita / Borzoi / Spitz and Collie (kernel 2.4), but the other machines should be equally fine.
So if you are asking yourself if you should try these images, go ahead you won't regret it.