On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:42 +0300, Alexander Danilov wrote: > The real killer is lacks of documentation, I mean, I try to build system > using OE about a week, but I can't, because of error during compile linux > kernel and I don't know what to do. It will be good to have small document > about how to use monotone and bitbake with OE distribution with concrete > examples (update repository, revert patches, better to all common tasks). > I do not understand directory structure of building tree - need explanation, > where to put my own patches, how to prevent is to deleted by bitbake or > monotone. And so on ... These problems stops me, and I think I am not the > only one.
The problem is OE is complex. Its also very powerful which is why it gets used. There is some documentation out there although it could certainly do better. To be honest, I don't have time to write it. We (as in OE developers) have spent time teaching people OE on the understanding they work on the docs in the past but they then don't :-(. Try to use OE and if you run into problems ask on the mailing lists or irc channel and someone will probably try and help. I will put some information here for the record. I am going to try and get hx2000 support included in Angstrom. You will note: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/images/20070104/hx2000/ which are images available for testing. I've not tried them yet. To use these images I recommend finding an SD card and partitioning it into two partitions, the first FAT, the second ext2. Untar the tar.bz2 file as root onto the ext2 partition. Place haret and the kernel onto the first FAT partition. An example haret binary and default.txt config file is available at: http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/hx2750/haret/ (that zimage is the one I used recently so is known to work) http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/IpaqHx2750 contains some further info about the above. The device should then use this SD partition as its root filesystem and run from there. I'd propose people focus around angstrom as its the best bet for getting this port anywhere. As for device status, in the 2.6.20-rc2 kernel I booted recently the framebuffer (lcd/screen), touchscreen and suspend/resume works. I don't have much time to spare and I have too many interests to do everything I'd like (I maintain kernels for at least 6 different zaurus models, am a core OE developer etc.) but I will try to continue the kernel work if/when I can as thats where my efforts are probably best spent as those skills are the hardest to acquire. Someone needs to take some intuitive here, I will do my best to help where I can. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Hx2000-port mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/hx2000-port
