Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751018AbWA2PMh (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:12:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750930AbWA2PMh (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:12:37 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:11993 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750811AbWA2PMg (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:12:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:12:23 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Marc Cc: Erik Mouw , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patching arm-linux 2.4.18 on sharp zaurus sl-5500 Message-ID: <20060129151221.GB1764@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060127143832.GG3673@harddisk-recovery.com> <200601272030.24079.marvin24@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601272030.24079.marvin24@gmx.de> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1582 Lines: 40 Hi! > > > We are a group of researchers at University of Pittbsurgh trying to > > > implement an ad-hoc routing protocol on the Sharp Zaurus 5500 pda. Our > > > network is running the following environment: > > > -arm-linux kernel 2.4.18-pxa3-embedix-021129 > > > > ncftp /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 > dir patch-2.4.18.bz2 > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 536 536 826105 Feb 25 2002 > > patch-2.4.18.bz2 > > > > Any particular reason why you're using a 4 year old kernel? > > > > > -OpenZaurus 3.5.1 > > as far as I know, OpenZaurus 3.5.4 is comming soon, but the standard kernel is > still 2.4.18-xyz. The Zaurus 5500 was not ported to newer kernels, because > the implementation from sharp/lineo was just to ugly. Instead a direct 2.6 > port was started but not finished up to now (see > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lenz/zaurus). Actually we are way better now. Latest 2.6 is close to booting on zaurus, missing pieces are proper mtd support (hacky patch is available, and proper patch works read-only), touchscreen and battery charging. > Pavel Machek has send some patches recently to lkml for the 2.6 kernel, but I > don't know what the status is right now. Aha :-). I ran out of time, I should have some more time for Zaurus in 3 weeks or so. Extra developers would be nice :-). Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/