Super Newbies Question

[seed]

i got many question about oz but  i am no  able to find answer nor on the seed web nor on this forum here the first ones
-can qtopia be use istead of opie or gpe, or at least can the default pim application be use with oz

-is the pim aplication of opie or gpe good enought

-i read about sd card probleme , will i be able to use my sd card on the sl6000l

-about the kernel 2.6, will it improven video performence of the sl6000l,is the oz kernel capable of overcloking/downcloking like guylem one, is there some benchmark ? betwen guylem kernel and the oz 2.6 wich offer the best performance

--will we have to recompile aplication in orer to take advantage on the kernel inprovement

--does oz include the libsdl of guylem, can we add it latter....


-many other incomming

[JohnKiniston]

I'll try to answer some questions.

To my understanding No one has added Qtopia to OpenEmbedded so it currently can not be built for OpenZaurus 3.5.3

I find the Opie Pims work decently on my 5500, 'Good Enough' is hard to judge.

I dont know about this, I believe the problem is with the older models not having a normal controller so they can not use a 2.6 kernel, My SD card works fine under 3.5.3

I've never benchmarked a Zaurus, I know things 'feel' faster with Open Zaurus over the Sharp based roms, I belive this is due to softfloat.

To run apps that are not built for OZ you will need to use the sharp-compat-libs.

I belive OZ has its own build of libsdl, if the guylem version is packaged you may be able to un-install the OZ packages and install the guylem packages.

[seed]

other question
can i juste use the kernel of oz with the sharp rom ??

[lardman]

-i read about sd card probleme , will i be able to use my sd card on the sl6000l

The SD card problem refers to the 2.6 kernel on the collie machines (5500 and 5000D). All of the others are fine.

-about the kernel 2.6, will it improven video performence of the sl6000l,

No idea.

is the oz kernel capable of overcloking/downcloking like guylem one

Should be.

is there some benchmark ? betwen guylem kernel and the oz 2.6 wich offer the best performance

I don't have a 6000, but if you post a benchmark I'm sure someone will run it for you.

--will we have to recompile aplication in orer to take advantage on the kernel inprovement

Kernel improvements are mainly to do with overheads and task switching speed, stuff like that (I think), so no, not really. However to get the improvements from soft-float, you will have to re-compile your apps.

--does oz include the libsdl of guylem, can we add it latter....

Is there something special about his version? Yes, you could add it later.


Si