a question and a comment
tetsu kernel? did you recompile for softfloat? I was just glancing over this thread and the Tetsu&pdaxrom combo caught my eye
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You don't need to recompile the kernel for softfloat, since softfloat is a userspace thing.
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Yep, as koen says, it is not necessary to recompile. that's why pdaXrom has two toolchains, gcc 2.95 for the kernel and gcc 3.4.x for the apps.
I chose Tetsu kernel since it is the fastest one for 2.4.20 and has all the latest patches. This way, I can just reflash the kernel whenever Tetsu upgrades his kernel build. The previous beta had a custom kernel afaik because it was using an old shrink down oz initrd as the boot image and required a custom kernel for that image. With my initrd which I ripped from the emergency boot image, I can just use Tetsu's special kernel and not worry about applying kernel patches and doubling effort in building and maintaining my own kernel build.
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sounds very very promising Meanie, thanks a lot for all this! Can't wait to fit pdaXrom back into my C3000
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I will start a new thread on this later. I am currently building a generic installer/flash utility for the C3000 (and partly the C3100 as well) which can install distros to the internal MicroDrive. I can install pdaXrom beta1/beta3 with it already. I also want it to be able to install pdaXrom beta4/r121. With this installer and the appropriate tarball of the rootfs image, new releases can be much easier ported/installed to the C3000.
I am also planning on building something like altboot in OZ, but without the fancy menu, that can run another distro off an external cf card. so for example, the main distro is running on the microdrive, and for testing you put a test image onto a cf card and it will load the distro from the cf card instead of the microdrive if it detects a distro on the cf during boot. ultimately, i want to get kexec working as well, then you can easily switch between 2.4.20 and 2.6.x kernel based distros.
