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Dual Booting Pdaxrom And Angstrom?
« on: May 06, 2007, 03:28:03 am »
This might be something that might be of interest to owners of C3100 and C3200.
Since pdaXrom runs mainly from the NAND and doesn't really use the internal MicroDrive explicitly and Angstrom runs from the MicroDrive and doesn't use the NAND which really is a waste of the NAND, it could be possible and might be desirable to have them dual boot on the Zaurus. Both use a 2.6.x kernel, the Angstrom one using the microdrive as rootfs and the pdaXrom one using the NAND. uboot which pdaXrom is using allows you to select a different device for rootfs, ie NAND or MicroDrive. This won't work as of now, but would anyone be interested if things went that way? And if you really want to, it probably would also be possible to boot off the SD card as well, for something like running Debian...
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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2007, 03:57:04 am »
Yes ... it is possible but some work needs to be done:
the angstrom kernel has a default nand flash layout that is like sharp default, pdaxrom uses a different layout (no home and big root).
If you do boot pdaxrom with an unchanged Angstrom kernel (which still hase old ABI compat) you will almost certainly do bad things to your root filesystem on nand.
What needs to be done is to ither change the nand default layout in the kernel sources or get u-boot send commandline to kernel with the new pdaxrom nand layout.

Just a few other words on this matter: changing the Angstrom kernel will require an EABI toolchain while changing u-boot can be don with almost any arm toolchain.

Using pdaxrom kernel on Angstrom is not possible because the pdaxrom kernel has no EABI support.

Things would be very different it the space in the logic partition would be defragmented,
there would be enough space for 2 kernels ;-)
« Last Edit: May 06, 2007, 04:45:06 am by louigi600 »
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2007, 07:06:26 am »
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23865&st=30
I think it'll be possible to use kexec to change kernels. Boot to one system and kexec to another.
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2007, 07:13:53 am »
i know what is possible. my reason for this post was to see whether anyone would be interested in such a thing before i spend time on it...
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2007, 08:47:39 am »
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i know what is possible. my reason for this post was to see whether anyone would be interested in such a thing before i spend time on it...
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I was wondering ... even if you do not spend time on it but how would you work around the problems (see my reply above) ?

Just intrested to see if you have any other way to work around the problems .
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2007, 09:01:29 am »
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i know what is possible. my reason for this post was to see whether anyone would be interested in such a thing before i spend time on it...
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I was wondering ... even if you do not spend time on it but how would you work around the problems (see my reply above) ?

Just intrested to see if you have any other way to work around the problems .
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as i said before, this currently is not possible, but if we rebuild the pdaXrom kernel with Angstrom patches or patch the Angstrom kernel with pdaXrom patches, then eventually we will end up with a kernel that can supports all distros. EABI enabled kernel can run old ABI binaries so definately need to build an EABI enabled kernel.

otherwise, kexec could also solve the problem or maybe have a look at this:
[a href=\"http://www.piro.hopto.org/~piro/pukiwiki/pukiwiki.php?zaurus%A1%A1boot%A1%A1loader%A1%A1for%A1%A1C3000]http://www.piro.hopto.org/~piro/pukiwiki/p...1for%A1%A1C3000[/url]
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2007, 09:41:13 am »
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as i said before, this currently is not possible, but if we rebuild the pdaXrom kernel with Angstrom patches or patch the Angstrom kernel with pdaXrom patches, then eventually we will end up with a kernel that can supports all distros. EABI enabled kernel can run old ABI binaries so definately need to build an EABI enabled kernel.
old-ABI comability is experimental and doesn't provide fully compability (see kernel's help for it).
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2007, 10:00:44 am »
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as i said before, this currently is not possible, but if we rebuild the pdaXrom kernel with Angstrom patches or patch the Angstrom kernel with pdaXrom patches, then eventually we will end up with a kernel that can supports all distros. EABI enabled kernel can run old ABI binaries so definately need to build an EABI enabled kernel.
old-ABI comability is experimental and doesn't provide fully compability (see kernel's help for it).
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Yea ... and you haveto enable it or you get no old ABI support at all.

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otherwise, kexec could also solve the problem or maybe have a look at this:
[a href=\"http://www.piro.hopto.org/~piro/pukiwiki/p...1for%A1%A1C3000]http://www.piro.hopto.org/~piro/pukiwiki/p...1for%A1%A1C3000[/url]

I do not understan whatever language is used in the site ... but it looks like a frontend to some kexec boot selection. I don't like much the kexec solution because it makes the boot process twice as long.
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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2007, 12:07:12 pm »
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I do not understan whatever language is used in the site ... but it looks like a frontend to some kexec boot selection. I don't like much the kexec solution because it makes the boot process twice as long.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...n&hl=en&ie=UTF8
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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2007, 05:02:43 pm »
would this work with beta3/ii13 or is it only >= r121 because of uboot? Also would you have to install pdaxrom from scratch or could angstrom be install on alongside an existing beta3/r121 install? I might like to try it if I was sure it wouldn't damage my current setup.
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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2007, 05:11:59 pm »
I for one would be very interested. However, I'm with Guylhem when he suggested that there are "too many distros on Zaurus", in the sense that if all the effort making cacko, pdaX, pocketworkstation, angstrom, oesf, openbsd etc were put into one version we'd have something more powerful.

Snag is that each person developing for the Zaurus do it for their own interest/satisfaction and thus have widely different goals.

I started to write a humorous summary of each distro's motives but I think it might have been insulting to everyone!
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« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2007, 06:00:03 pm »
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« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2007, 06:20:34 pm »
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Yes, please go ahead! I for one would be more interested in reading this than expecting the never-dream-distro.  
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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2007, 06:38:01 pm »
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I started to write a humorous summary of each distro's motives but I think it might have been insulting to everyone!
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Yes, please go ahead! I for one would be more interested in reading this than expecting the never-dream-distro.  
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there's no "anonymous coward" posting option on the forum!
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« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2007, 07:46:45 pm »
well...  It would probably be useful to merge angstrom patches to the pdaxrom kernel. EABI seems like a good idea. Further it would seem like a good idea to have a unified kernel. pas that, maybe a re-compile-fest to bring older apps with compatiblity problems up to speed?
really what is of interest here to me would be the chance to move towards interoperabilily (even with debian, maybe?)  and really stable, functional 2.6 based releases. a unified kernel would be an excellent start.

On the other hand I could live without uboot.
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