720degrees development status?

These forums are ok, but what is really needed is organization of information

A SEPARATE forum (even hosted on this same forum, but in a different category/etc) would be very helpful to all

A Wiki would be best, given the collaborative nature of this development.

Whatever idiot that is making this spammer is now making it almost on topic? Interesting.

Ok then, I would like to announce that I finally got into full communication with our last developer, z80. I can now consider development moving again. Our newest addition is a contrast/brightness adjustor tool, thanks to shadowmaster. It just makes things all the more convenient.

To be released in the next base.

great!
good job!

Just for you all to know, I just found out that kernel 2.6 fixes the pink text and slow scroll problems. I guess Gernoth failed to mention that to us.

Jlime gets to release their kernel 2.6.17 distribution before we do. But it will all be standard soon.

Have all the other "fixes" for the J720 platform be integrated as well? Do features like the CPU slow down and the power button work?

Also can we still use our toolchain with gcc 3.2?

-Weblacky

I have been trying to boot 2.6 for a bit now, unsuccessful so far. Suspend does not work at all on 2.6 yet. Not like it did anything on 2.4...

Just to make sure, you have been using the linexec that was modified to boot 2.6 kernels?

http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~simigern/jornada-7xx/line...

-Weblacky

You offend me.

Of course, just that jlime doesn't want me to get their kernel easily installed right now.

Well, normally there's no harm in asking :-)

I was a little confused, does the kernel not boot or does it stop during boot?

-Weblacky

It did not boot because my params.txt was wrong. It booted right into a kernel panic, but man, the white text sure was perty.

It did not take me long to find the reason of the kernel panic - apparently, the Jlime practice of "Even if it would satisfy the needs of many more users, if it adds 2kb, take it out", led them to compile the kernel with only ext2 enabled. As I have the advantage of using a microdrive with ext3, this is rather irritating, since I now have to format and redo everything in ext2. Currently, I am still not able to get the patch, so all that we have access to currently is an ipkg-style kernel.

Edited by ProgramSynthesiser 2006-07-23 6:17 PM

Can you make/alter a new initramfs with the ext3 module so the initrmd will have the right module?

-Weblacky

apparently, the Jlime practice of "Even if it would satisfy the needs of many more users, if it adds 2kb, take it out"

I would rather translate it into "why bother 99% of users with the desires of 1%". Same reason why we wont add scsi in the default kernel. We will though release a full kernel with support for all known weird addons.

Gah. You weren't supposed to see that.

We all know that we both look at things from completely different angles. See, on the 720degrees side, our base is much larger, and many more users require a microdrive. Especially if they want to use swap and ext3, both essential for general computing on the 720, not pda use.

Anyways, when the new Jlime release comes out, we will just modify the kernel to the way that best suits 720degrees - everything they could possibly need.

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