Re: patching arm-linux 2.4.18 on sharp zaurus sl-5500

[Pavel Machek]

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!
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