Hey, long time no news regarding OpenWrt <-> the Openmoko Neo devices; but it happened much! We think we now reached a state which justifies providing - an update what's up - an image and environment to play around with
== So, what happened last 6 months? - kernel 2.6.30.1 is running we extracted all neo-specific patches from the OM-kernel-tree and created an atomic and maintainable patchset for the Neo (Lars did great work here) - clean, stable and accelerated graphics system thanks to the gorgeous work of the xf86-video-glamo developers, finally there's no need for <Xglamo> anymore - acceleration is done from within an usual <Xorg> with the glamo-driver used. The infamous WSOD should be ultimately purged out. - GPS works the amazing application <tangoGPS> is also available as an OpenWrt-package now - performance tuned due to it's architecture itself, fixed bugs and found ways for optimizations through all layers, OpenWrt now boots in less than 1 minute into illume (very first boot excluded) - software added/upgraded besides lot's of just OpenWrt-related improvements, also typical OM-community-used packages were added and upgraded to recent versions (e.g. tangogps, enlightenment/the whole efl-suite, paroli, fso, connman, etc.) - a beautiful bootsplash real beauty can't be described by words - phone calls are still possible thanks to paroli, the basic phone stuff is (still) working (phone calls, messages, contacts, etc.) == Images / environment Images can be found here: http://nanl.de/files/openwrt/openmoko/ Mind - that, as usual for OpenWrt - the default IP of your device will be "192.168.1.1" and the only running service will be <telnet> on port 23. After logging in and setting a password, <telnetd> is getting replaced through <sshd> (port 22). The mentioned files/images have the prefix "20090706_r16709_1", based on svn-revision 16709. It seems there are some problems with "Qi" at the moment; in case you're using Qi please try using u-boot from NOR-flash until this issue is fixed. == In case of errors/failures and resulting aggressions, ultimate happiness or just questions and criticism... ...please do not hesitate to tell us your thoughts and feelings. There's also a wiki-page about OpenWrt on the Neo: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenWrt (thanks to Romuald "neomilium" Conty at this point, for his great work of co-maintaining the wiki-page, testing and making lot's of great suggestions what could be done (better)). Try it out :) Love mirko (the other one) On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 19:58 +0100, Mirko Vogt wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm glad to announce that OpenWrt now has basic support for the Openmoko GTA02 "Freerunner"! > > There's still lot's of work to do but let's see what's already working for now: > > - kernel (2.6.28) is building and booting (merging the Openmoko and OpenWrt patchsets, whereof one (and that's not ours ;)) consists of either over 620 little non-atomic patches or one 10MB patchblob [kudos to git!], is no picnic (thanks to the work of Michael "mb" Buesch at this point!) > - D-Bus and the freesmartphone.org reference implementation (they import the libc.so.6 via ctypes - I was really puzzled when python told me it can't find my libc, because I was using the uclibc) > - Xglamo with acceleration (in the beginning Xglamo just crashed, even JTAG wasn't available anymore; it took us weeks to figure out that a compiler bug was the cause (thanks to Felix Fietkau, Holger Freyther and Lars Clausen) - Lars btw. is currently making good progress to get glamo acceleration working within Xorg) > - the EFL (enlightenment foundation libraries) and enlightenment including illume (needs some more love to make it really fit into the OpenWrt-environment - currently <edje_cc> and <eet> are required as pre-installed host tools) > - paroli phone application suite (in case it's working ;)) > > A few days ago we established the first OpenWrt<->OpenWrt phone call which worked out of the box after flashing our devices - so we thought that might be a good occasion for an announcement :) > > We're pleased for all of your feedback and any kind of help is highly appreciated! > > Thanks a lot! > > mirko (the other one) > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
