it looks like a dead forum, is it just a bad moment or is it really dead?

[DiTBho]

From what I see the interest in Zaurus is very low, weeks without posts, is there anyone still here?

[Varti]

Yes, the Zaurus section of the forum unfortunately has a very low activity since many years, which is expected since only the SL-5500 and SL-6000 models were sold outside Japan. I still have my collection of Zauruses and switch them on from time to time, I read the posts here with interest.
I suspect there are other users following the various threads but they never answer. We have a views counter for each thread, there are between 5000 and 19000 views for each of them, though most of them are be probably made by bots. I prefer to keep the subforums open for read-only access for non-registered users, so that it's easier for Google to index the pages and make the information here more accessible.
Other users that have posted here in the past are probably following this subforum. To any of you, please post here so that we can have a rough idea of how many of us are here.

Varti

[DiTBho]

Yes, the Zaurus section of the forum unfortunately has a very low activity since many years, which is expected since only the SL-5500 and SL-6000 models were sold outside Japan. I still have my collection of Zauruses and switch them on from time to time, I read the posts here with interest.
I suspect there are other users following the various threads but they never answer. We have a views counter for each thread, there are between 5000 and 19000 views for each of them, though most of them are be probably made by bots. I prefer to keep the subforums open for read-only access for non-registered users, so that it's easier for Google to index the pages and make the information here more accessible.
Other users that have posted here in the past are probably following this subforum. To any of you, please post here so that we can have a rough idea of how many of us are here.

Varti

But C1000? C3xxx?

I wonder what's the point of reading without ever replying 
I've opened several topics, with zero interest, I'm developing a bootloader, and I've written about this thing, again with zero interest.
I've asked for patches, and I've had no answers, I've asked about the microdrive, explaining the matter well, and I've had no answers.

I mean, frankly, it's so bloody frustrating this way ...

[Varti]

AFAIK the SL-C1000/3x00 models were never directly sold in the US/EU, only imported through resellers. I bought my 1000 from an online japanese shop which exported japanese electronic goods.

I'm really looking forward for your new bootloader, I can help with testing it on my devices. I understand your frustration with the lack of feedback, unfortunately the Zaurus community is these days extremely small. I have answered on your thread for the update issues, sorry I didn't answer earlier.

Varti

[ArchiMark]

Hi DiTBho,

I know it has been a long time since your post above, but I am interested in your work and progress if you would like to share.

Thanks,

Mark

[Varti]

Hi ArchiMark, glad to see you back here, hope things are going well for you.
I'm also interested if there are news about the new bootloader.

Varti

[btgdelta]

Hi DiTBho! I am also very interested on the bootloader side of things, I even tried writing you an email a couple of days ago.
I've been poking around my SL-C1000 and could not figure out how to initialize the SD card reader properly (without booting a full-on kernel). One would think that it should be a trivial task, since there are pretty good Intel developer documents for the PXA27x platform, but there seem to be some very quirky deviations about the SL-C1000 implementation especially.
I have a gentoo kernel booting with the "Frankenstein", but it seems to also suffer from some SD controller handover shenanigans. My debug was somewhat limited though, since I only recently purchased a serial cable that would help immensly on the debugging part of things.
I will write a longer forum post with all the stuff I did and all the info I gathered so far at a later point in time.

P.S. I also found out that the 4.4.8 kexecboot (https://github.com/LinuxPDA/linux-kexecboot/tree/master/zaurus/kernel-4.4.8) uses the same kernel for both akita and borzoi, but while the kernel runs perfectly fine on the latter it crashes pretty early on the akita. There seems to be a condition race/kernel bug that I haven't been able to fix yet, even though I was able to solve it for the gentoo 5.x kernel, using some rewritten kernel patches (I think the original versions are from greguu if I remember correctly).

Greetings,
btgdelta