Marcin Juszkiewicz March 31st, 2006
As many of people noticed Sharp released new model: Zaurus SL-C3200 which differ from C3100 only in keyboard color and microdrive size. We added this model to updater.sh used by spitz (C3000) and borzoi (C3100) images.
OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1-alpha1 should work on ‘terrier’ without problems - if someone notice any kernel problems then please report them - more info in that post.
BTW: we united all SL-C3×00 models into one in OpenEmbedded. Currently we use ’spitz’ as MACHINE for them - this will be changed to “c3×00″ in future. Akita (SL-C1000) will be separated from spitz/c3×00.
Marcin Juszkiewicz March 21st, 2006
It’s available from http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1
Notes:
Spitz (sl-c3000) and Borzoi (sl-c3100) images are the same so we united them.
C7×0 machines have issues with sound which will be fixed before release.
test it and report bugs, fixes, ideas:
- OE Bugtracker: http://bugs.openembedded.org/
- GPE Bugtracker: http://handhelds.org/bugzilla/
- OPIE Bugtracker: http://opie-bugs.oszine.de/
All feedback goes to openzaurus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Kernel modules are provided in modules/ subdirs. You can use them as a feed:
src/gz c7x0 http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1/c7x0/modules
src/gz akita http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1/akita/modules
src/gz spitz-borzoi http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/tmp/hrw/3.5.4.1-test/alpha1/spitz-borzoi/modules
Ofcourse select proper one ;)
Marcin Juszkiewicz March 18th, 2006
On behalf of the OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus, Opie and GPE teams, I am proud to present to you the fourth OpenZaurus release based on the BitBake build system and the OpenEmbedded metadata repository.
The highlights of this release are:
- OPIE 1.2.1
- GPE 2.7
- Cross SDK provided
- Native SDK provided
- WPA support on all machines
- Linux Kernel 2.6.14-rc1 for C7×0
- nearly 3000 source packages which result in 12000 packages to install
- Various corrections to keymaps for all machines have been made
- Fixed keyboard repeat on c7×0 machines
- Suspend/resume issues on collie, poodle, tosa have been fixed
- Bluetooth improvements all over the place, especially in the base system
- some 802.11g CF cards probably work now
- Enlightenment DR 17 images (experimental)
This release supports the following Sharp Zaurus models:
- collie (SL-5000, SL-5500)
- poodle (SL-5600, B500)
- tosa (SL-6000)
- c7×0 (C700, C750, C760, C860, SL-7500)
Due to a lot of problems with 2.4.20 on cxx00 machines we have decided to not release 3.5.4 for those machines. It does not makes sense to release 3.5.4 with crappy cxx00 support and then lose our reputation when some weeks later we could have 3.5.4.1 with proper cxx00 support.
You can help to speed up development by donating money and/or devices to our developers. Compared to other open source projects we receive very few donations, although we spend a lot of our precious spare time and deliver lots of good work. So if you are regularly using OpenZaurus, consider donating developers.
See the ReleaseNotes for important notes before you install OpenZaurus 3.5.4.
Also see Installation for Installation instructions.
Marcin Juszkiewicz
OpenZaurus 3.5.4 Release Manager
Marcin Juszkiewicz March 6th, 2006
I want to inform all of you that I tagged OpenZaurus 3.5.4 in .oz354fam083 branch.
What does it mean for you:
- if you are user then you will get OpenZaurus 3.5.4 soon (few days)
- if you are OE/OZ developer then you can start working on OZ 3.5.4.1 :)
What was changed in OpenZaurus 3.5.4? List is too long to be even created but I want to note few things:
- OPIE 1.2.1 (with lot of hires fixes made after 1.2.1 release - mostly by me :)
- GPE 2.7 (also with some fixes which was done after 2.7 release)
- 2.4.18 kernels with APM fixes so no more suspend/resume problems
- WE18/WE19 in kernels so WPA should work out-of-box
- cleaned pcmcia configs so CF cards should work out-of-box too
- some of 802.11g CF cards probably will work
- Enlightenment DR 17 images (experimental)
Now we need to start build machine and after few days we will release it.
OpenZaurus 3.5.4 test program is closed now.
REMIND: Due to lot of problems with 2.4.20 on cxx00 machines we decided to not release 3.5.4 for those machines. It does not makes sense to release 3.5.4 with crappy cxx00 support and then lose again our reputation before some weeks later we could have 3.5.4.1 with proper cxx00 support.