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nightfire

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« on: February 19, 2005, 12:56:25 pm »
Linux 2.6 is looking pretty good on the 7x0 series these days... It's much more stable and smoother than 2.4; is there a near future prospect?
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2005, 02:32:18 pm »
That would be nice-- ALSA rocks over OSS!

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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2005, 05:20:25 am »
I think the problems with 2.6 is that there are no source for the  sd card and ati  drivers.

So porting these drivers to 2.6 involves reverse engineering and the like. I'm not sure that someone has completed this yet.

see this thread
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2005, 08:00:45 am »
I think that the "compile a pdaXrom for yourself" guide will be available in the not very far future, so if you feel like you have an awful lot of time, you will be able go ahead and try to get 2.6 working with pdaXrom.
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2005, 08:02:49 am »
You're all a bit confused.

Some facts:

* Kernel 2.6 works _very_ good on C7x0 thanks to the OpenZaurus kernel hackers, including the (unaccelerated yet) W100fb and SD/MMC.

* SD won't be possible on the SL5000 and SL5500 unless someone with huge expertise dives into the locomo interface and gets the NDA documents from Sharp.

* Alsa or OSS is not a matter of generic kernel, but of drivers. At the moment, many PDA sound drivers are still OSS, because someone has to write alsa drivers.
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2005, 09:55:22 pm »
Ok, but ALSA still beats the pants offa OSS...

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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2005, 06:09:30 am »
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You're all a bit confused.

Some facts:

* Kernel 2.6 works _very_ good on C7x0 thanks to the OpenZaurus kernel hackers, including the (unaccelerated yet) W100fb and SD/MMC.

* SD won't be possible on the SL5000 and SL5500 unless someone with huge expertise dives into the locomo interface and gets the NDA documents from Sharp.

* Alsa or OSS is not a matter of generic kernel, but of drivers. At the moment, many PDA sound drivers are still OSS, because someone has to write alsa drivers.
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thanks, mickey, we will try it
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2005, 11:30:52 am »
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* Kernel 2.6 works _very_ good on C7x0 thanks to the OpenZaurus kernel hackers, including the (unaccelerated yet) W100fb and SD/MMC.

That sounds good. Although there does not seem to be one single patch to apply that allows to compile a working linux-2.6-kernel. Maybe the new 2.6.11 has more support for ARM in general and for the zaurus.

2.6 might also mean the use of udev instead of devfs.
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« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2005, 09:14:33 am »
Hello again,

I recently installed oz-3.5.3-pre, and they seem to have a working 2.6-kernel. Maybe using that kernel is a way to bring 2.6 to pdaxrom. It uses udev.
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« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2005, 12:57:59 pm »
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Hello again,

I recently installed oz-3.5.3-pre, and they seem to have a working 2.6-kernel. Maybe using that kernel is a way to bring 2.6 to pdaxrom. It uses udev.
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SD card working?
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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2005, 08:37:19 am »
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SD card working?

I don't know. Since i do not own a sd card, this has not been an issue for me. But this question implies that this is a major concern for pdaxrom. Maybe i find a way to check it, and report back.
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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2005, 09:52:45 am »
SD mounts fine.
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« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2005, 08:15:03 am »
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SD card working?

Not yet with the SD card i have. The card is recognized, the partition is recognized, too, so i will just have to find the correct device under /dev, and mount it then.

The in-kernel-support is there (modules). SD cards are handled by the mmc subsystem, i guess.
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« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2005, 08:59:48 am »
Edit fstab, it looks like a mistake crept in - remove the line which says 'dev/mmcda1' and leave the one marked for the 2.6 kernel


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« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2005, 12:25:27 pm »
The fstab contains both entries for the 2.4 and the 2.6 device nodes - why shouldn't that work ?
« Last Edit: April 11, 2005, 12:25:38 pm by Mickeyl »
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