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« on: September 05, 2005, 12:28:35 pm »
I'm now written working support for the the C3000 (spitz) under 2.6 kernels and I'm told the kernel below correctly identifies the C1000 (akita) and uses its io expander correctly. I really need to know if this kernel correctly identifies the C3100 (Borzoi).

The tester just needs to take this image, flash it and report back if it correctly says Sharp Borzoi as the machine starts (/proc/cpuinfo will also report this). You don't specifically reflash your initrd/hdd  but as far as I know only OE images support the 2.6 kernel so it won't boot very far. At this time I only need to know it correcly idenfities the machine so this doesn't matter.

http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/temp/zImage-akita

If you see Linux boot messages on the screen and it correctly identifies
the machine, that will be a successful test.

Without this being tested, I can't offer any further C3100 2.6 kernel development.

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« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2005, 07:31:47 pm »
Hello,
(Sorry for my bad english, french man!)

Im tested, and result message :
--- Zaurus CF uptader ---
MODEL:SL-C3100
ERROR:Invalid Model!
Please Reset

Désolé
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« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2005, 07:50:50 pm »
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Hello,
(Sorry for my bad english, french man!)

Im tested, and result message :
--- Zaurus CF uptader ---
MODEL:SL-C3100
ERROR:Invalid Model!
Please Reset

Désolé
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That sounds like the wrong updater.sh is being used. Which one are you using?

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Richard

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« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2005, 07:55:03 pm »
I used this one:  
http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstabl...3000/updater.sh

One needs another of them?
Which already?
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« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2005, 08:09:30 pm »
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I used this one: 
http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstabl...3000/updater.sh

One needs another of them?
Which already?
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Try this one:

[a href=\"http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/temp/updater.sh.borzoi]http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/temp/updater.sh.borzoi[/url]

The one you linked to is only compatible with the C3000.

Just to add, if you can't see the machine name because it scolls too fast, note down what the mtd partitions it sees look like - this should tell me which machine the kernel things its running on.

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« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2005, 11:13:07 pm »
i am a bit lost, i thoght the 2.6 porting efort was at http://www.orca.cx/zaurus/, so do we have 2 people working on ti or has it been migrated to somewhere else

i am kind of intrested as i have some plans for the 2.6 kernel and am waiting on a completely working kernel (ie with lcd/keyboar/sound)

also any eta? the site i mentioned hasent been updated in awhile
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« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2005, 03:53:03 am »
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i am a bit lost, i thoght the 2.6 porting efort was at http://www.orca.cx/zaurus/, so do we have 2 people working on ti or has it been migrated to somewhere else

i am kind of intrested as i have some plans for the 2.6 kernel and am waiting on a completely working kernel (ie with lcd/keyboar/sound)

also any eta? the site i mentioned hasent been updated in awhile
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[a href=\"http://rpsys.net/openzaurus/]http://rpsys.net/openzaurus/[/url] has all the info and links on  getting kernel 2.6 to run an zauri (collie, poodle, cxxx and c3xxx)
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« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2005, 05:25:08 am »
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and am waiting on a completely working kernel (ie with lcd/keyboar/sound)

also any eta? the site i mentioned hasent been updated in awhile

It will, of course, happen faster if people volunteer to do testing & bug finding, etc.


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« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2005, 06:17:30 am »
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i am a bit lost, i thoght the 2.6 porting efort was at http://www.orca.cx/zaurus/, so do we have 2 people working on ti or has it been migrated to somewhere else

i am kind of intrested as i have some plans for the 2.6 kernel and am waiting on a completely working kernel (ie with lcd/keyboar/sound)

also any eta? the site i mentioned hasent been updated in awhile
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The company I work for (Openedhand Ltd) gave me a C3000 to "play" with and I've therefore assisted the 2.6 kernel port a bit. You can see the status on [a href=\"http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/]http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/[/url]

In summary, USB Client and Sound are missing. Battery measurement could use some debugging.

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« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2005, 09:10:16 pm »
i was under the impersion that usb client was a pxa270 thing and not c3k specfic?, i know they have it working on a x50 (usbnet)

some other things that have shown up in the 2.6.13 kernel that my be of use, alsa ac97 support for pxa2xx's and pxa27x power support (throgh sysfs) (note i see the sound driver is i2c, i belive they added suport for that in 2.6.12 for the pxa's)

hope it helps, as for testers where do i sign up, i woudnt mind sound but that wont hold me back from doing testing
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« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2005, 04:14:17 am »
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i was under the impersion that usb client was a pxa270 thing and not c3k specfic?, i know they have it working on a x50 (usbnet)

some other things that have shown up in the 2.6.13 kernel that my be of use, alsa ac97 support for pxa2xx's and pxa27x power support (throgh sysfs) (note i see the sound driver is i2c, i belive they added suport for that in 2.6.12 for the pxa's)

hope it helps, as for testers where do i sign up, i woudnt mind sound but that wont hold me back from doing testing
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Yes, a usb client for the pxa27x exists in hh.org and we can probably use it. It has several bugs which is why I've put off importing it into the 2.6 kernel - I don't like importing known faulty code as I'll just get complaints.

As for sound, we don't use ac97 but use I2S instead - no mainline support for that. There is a known good I2C driver for the PXA around but it is also not in mainline. We have the kernel patched to add that as the c7x0 already uses it. For cxx00, someone just needs to import the 2.4 Sharp code, clean it up and we'd have an OSS driver. I'd prefer we went one step further and converted both it and the c7x0 driver to alsa though.

Both issues are easily solved, they just need someone to spend time on them. Any help is welcome - kernels/images can be generated from OE.

At the moment, I'm busy pushing some of the cxx00 changes into mainline Linux so we don't have a massive patchset to maintain. I'm also trying to fix the 2.6 images OE is generating as there are a few issues with them. Once this is done, I'll get back to enhacning the kernel.

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« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2005, 08:10:55 am »
i find its very easy to get confused when it comes to maintaing branches of the mainline, i assume the 2.6 hh.org code is 2.6.0? and not the latest.

i am really waiting for it to go mainline so i can whip a couple of things up for a project i am working on, look foward to a new feed of pxa270 optimised programs. in the meantime i must really get oe up and running

i havent done any kernel/alsa stuff before but i might take a look at the i2c stuff, i wouldnt expect to get much out of me but i have delt with i2c busses and eeproms on micro controlers before, seems like a good chance to learn some new skills

is there a mailing list about as i seem to be going off topic
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« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2005, 08:20:45 am »
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i find its very easy to get confused when it comes to maintaing branches of the mainline, i assume the 2.6 hh.org code is 2.6.0? and not the latest.
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« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2005, 09:17:54 am »
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is there a mailing list about as i seem to be going off topic

kernel-discuss@handhelds.org is where the Zaurus, iPAQ, Toshiba, etc. kernel developers hang out. kernel-discuss@handhelds.org is _not_ just about the hh.org tree, it's especially about discussing what needs to do to get our PDA/WebPad etc. patches into mainline.
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« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2005, 04:23:49 am »
Richard,

Since I have a good NAND flash image to restore (just in case), Ill give it a test here.

-Martin