Porting Pdaxrom To C3000 ... Quite Close But ...

[loc4me]

Awesome! Sounds like you are getting very close. Keep up the great work and keep us posted with your quick progress.

-Mark

[paimpol]

Hello, i have not great skills in devellopment of image for zaurus. but could you just explain me the big step of your work to port the pdaxromm on the z3000 because i don't have a clue about this kind of work. Have you special book or good site that you start with?

I really want to have pdaxrom alone on my zaurus to run open office or firefox, gftp, and other good soft, i have acutally the cacko 3kb1 and i just start to try to cross-compil for my dear SL-C3000.
I really appreciate your work.Good luck

[ThC]

I started with the OESF How To's about the c3000, then analysed the layout of the cacko's rom , of standard sharp rom and OZ rom to find out what I really need to boot up the Z, then remade the pdaXrom's layout.
Sashz helped me a lot too as the final thing may now be able to resize the flash partitions of the zaurus during install process if needed (just like it does with cxx0 models) so we can include everything we need in the initrd.
As I told already, next step will be to make scripts for pdaXbuilder to compile a full distro for c3000 with kernel and everything. And I'll also have to remake an updater.sh to resize flash parts if needed. (And I still have much to learn in shell script for these purposes I think but I'm not afraid of that ... after all, that's why I bought Zauriis)
Btw it won't be the faster nor the easyer part of the job as I first have to figure out how pdaXbuilder build scripts are working to have it doing exactly what I want it to do

[flavien]

I hope  pdaXrom developers could help you to improve compilation  

This topic will never die before a true Pdaxrom will be available to C3000.

Thanks you for you job, i hope i can help you a little bit  

Could you use this topic to publish your works ? I am very happy to read happy news  

[jlmfreire]

I really hope that you can make it.

I've the Cacko 1.23-b1 installed and REALLY love to try pdaXrom in my C3000.
I'm not a linux developer, but would like to try to help in any testing that you need.

Thanks for your hard work.

- Joao -

[daniel3000]

Now after ZDevil said he could compile VYM (view your mind) for pdaXrom, I'm extremely interested in pdaXrom for the C3000 :-)

daniel

[ThC]

I'm currently still working on the pdaXrom's updater script to add the c3000 (which I think is ready ... now have to submit my modified file to sashz) and to work out a makefile tweak for the c3000 in pdaXbuilder ... so needing help from anyone who figured out how these scripts works (even for other models ...)
Also, to those who have recompiled your kernels for c3000, could you send me your config files please ? as I need to know what's going wong with the c1000/c31000 pdaXrom's kernels and it would be better if I don't have to re-make the kernel zillion times to find out the best options ...

[Meanie]

I'm currently still working on the pdaXrom's updater script to add the c3000 (which I think is ready ... now have to submit my modified file to sashz) and to work out a makefile tweak for the c3000 in pdaXbuilder ... so needing help from anyone who figured out how these scripts works (even for other models ...)
Also, to those who have recompiled your kernels for c3000, could you send me your config files please ? as I need to know what's going wong with the c1000/c31000 pdaXrom's kernels and it would be better if I don't have to re-make the kernel zillion times to find out the best options ...
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How about using tetsu's kernel config? [a href=\"http://tetsu.homelinux.org/zaurus/kernel/v18b/v18a-C3000]http://tetsu.homelinux.org/zaurus/kernel/v18b/v18a-C3000[/url]

[ThC]

Thanks a lot Meanie, I was thinking to something like that but haven't had time to dig out enough to find it
I should now be able to build a good kernel for the distrib so I may be able to make an alpha release soon

[pyknite]

hi...

i don't understand... here https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13560 there is a tuto to install pdaxrom, and in this post, you are trying to port pdaxrom...

pdaxrom work with the c3000 or not?

thx

[ThC]

well ... pdaxom sorta works with c3000 but lacks some functions as it's not compiled using the same libc as qtopia/cacko rom and tetsu's kernels.
PdaXrom's team not having any c3000, it don't have any install option for the c3000 (c1000 and c31000 have a close system layout which is very different from the c3000's one).
The dual boot method is "working" but have some problems as you can see in the post you talk about (and other posts related to dual booting any pdaXrom version on a c3000) with wifi management, apm and a few other things ...

What I'm trying to achieve here is adding the c3000 branch to the pdaXom  build system so we will then have every new release of pdaXrom running natively on c3000 without having to dual boot or whatever and with everything working OK

[pyknite]

well ... pdaxom sorta works with c3000 but lacks some functions as it's not compiled using the same libc as qtopia/cacko rom and tetsu's kernels.
PdaXrom's team not having any c3000, it don't have any install option for the c3000 (c1000 and c31000 have a close system layout which is very different from the c3000's one).
The dual boot method is "working" but have some problems as you can see in the post you talk about (and other posts related to dual booting any pdaXrom version on a c3000) with wifi management, apm and a few other things ...

What I'm trying to achieve here is adding the c3000 branch to the pdaXom  build system so we will then have every new release of pdaXrom running natively on c3000 without having to dual boot or whatever and with everything working OK
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oki great things... good chance

I will wait before try to install pdaxrom

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[Meanie]

quick question about /home on the pdaxrom version for the C3000. where is that located now? still on flash or moved to the internal microdrive?

when my replacement C3000 comes back from Tokyo, I might be able to give you a hand.

[drnick]

Hello,

I'd like to thank you for all of your efforts.  There should be a way to make a donation for heading up this project.  I've used your dual-boot method months ago to get rc10 on my 3000.  Thank you.  Is there a list of kernel modules that you can provide under pdaX/c3000?  I would like to know that some of the hardware I have will be supported.  Mainly, prism2_cs to support my planex wifi card, and pl2303 for my prolific usb-serial adaptor.  I cannot wait for this release.  pdaX on the c3000 will be exciting.  I really hope that the pdaX devs give you as much help as you need.

[ThC]

@Meanie : the /home dir is still located in flash as in the standard c3000 layout, /home is a mixture of an /home dir in the RO part of the flash and a 4Mb partition mounted rw (containing /home/etc, /home/system/var ... which we're then symlinking at the root of the filesystem). I hope you'll receive your c3000 soon as I need help from experienced Z user/devs ...

@drnick : compared to building a whole distrib like what are doing sash or OE developpers, my work is really minimal, I'm only using their work and modifying some of their scripts so they're the ones who deserve donations. All I want is people to show their support and to help if they feel they're skilled enough . The pdaX devs (well, only sashz helped me out but he's the only one I've asked to btw...) have lots of work with general bugfixing and improvements for next versions so they're (he) helping me out as much as they can and their help is greatly appreciated but sometimes not sufficient as I'm not that skilled, so sometimes I'm loosing a few hours waiting for shashz to answer a question so I can make a big step forward

@ Everyone  : Kernel modules will be the sames as for c1000/c3100 so you can except compatibility with the same devices as with these models  (I will post a full list if needed but keep in mind my kernel is still not built as I'm waiting for Sashz to upload an update of his pdaXbuilder to start working with it...)