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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Collie (5500) 2.14.18 Kernel

« on: August 11, 2004, 03:39:37 pm »

I moved my kernel to organize my site a little better.  Look in:  http://www.users.qwest.net/~joshin/kernel/

I also have a recent OZ build with open embedded there.  It is buggy but should give you an idea where OZ is right now.  (Or 3 days ago at least.)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Collie (5500) 2.14.18 Kernel

« on: August 02, 2004, 01:30:29 pm »

Oops, sorry.  It is a 64/0 kernel.  

It uses all the OE kernel defaults except for FS_SYNC which I had to add manually.

Memory Segmentation is easy in OE.  Edit your local.conf to have:
COLLIE_MEMORY_SIZE=64
COLLIE_RAMDISK_SIZE=0

I'm hoping that everyone that tries out this kernel will post their results so that we can get the default OE kernel to allow async mounts but have the fstab entries set to sync.  That way we have the flexability to mount our cards async if we're willing but the default condition is sync mounts for those that want the utmost in data safety.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Collie (5500) 2.14.18 Kernel

« on: August 02, 2004, 12:08:12 pm »

Hi all.

  I just built a new collie (SL-5500 & SL-5000) kernel using the latest (and wonderful) OpenEmbedded environment.  My kernel differs from the standard Kernel in that I turned off the "FS_SYNC" option in my build.

  This has the effect of -allowing- you to turn on async mounts.  This can be DANGEROUS for your data if you remove your cards before all cached data is written to the cards.  If you remove your cards via the normal card eject method, you should be fine.  

  If you want synchronous mounts,  add "sync" to the mount options for each drive you wish to mount synchronously.  

  In my case, I saw a nearly 75% increase in the Opie-1.1.3 sysinfo SD benchmark on my older PNY 128M SD card.  I'm running the hentges 3.3.6-pre1 build (http://www.hentges.net/misc/openzaurus/index.shtml)

  My kernel can be found at http://www.users.qwest.net/~joshin/zImage-...k7-pxa3-embedix.


  Please let me know how this works for you.

-Josh



EDIT:
I moved my kernel to organize my site a little better.  Look in:  http://www.users.qwest.net/~joshin/kernel/

I also have a recent OZ build with open embedded there.  It is buggy but should give you an idea where OZ is right now.  (Or 3 days ago at least.)

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Sharp ROMs / What GCC compiled the latest Sharp rom Zaurus 5500

« on: June 28, 2004, 04:40:37 pm »

Hi all,

  Does anyone know what version of GCC was used to compile the Sharp rom?  I'd like to find out since I'm trying to install Python on it and there are seperate feeds for 2.95 and 3.4 libraries.

  Thanks!

-Josh