Hi!
Just to wetten your mouths a bit - I have finally managed to build an
image for the minibook using OpenEmbedded, with some new features...
First of all everything is compiled with -msoft-float now. This seems to
improve the performance a little but though this might also be caused by
the usage of a new compiler (s.b.) - but do not expect miracles!
The device just finally feels a little snappier and a little bit more
usable.
On this road I had to upgrade some parts, like GCC which is now 4.3.3
accompanied with a new set of binutils 2.19.1 and a new and shiny glibc 2.7.
I will upload the new filesystem binary image to the LinuxToGo Minibook
project. This will be a 36MB download.
The file uploaded is *just* a .tar.gz of a rootfs. This is not yet a
ready-to-install solution. I am working on this. It also still contain
several "bugs", the most evil one being that the keyboard under X11 does
not work, it needs an additional parameter
-keybd keyboard
on the Xfbdev commandline. This happened during the Xfbdev upgrade to
1.5.3 which fixed another keyboard problem (only every second key press
of some keys beeing reported :(
So this is for the brave only!
Or if you want to rip it apart and only use parts from it.
For some developers it will be of more interest that I will also create
and release a new softfloat toolchain next (even prior to create the
installable filesystem image - this is done to enable the *Step
developers with softfloat versions).
So stay tuned, things are coming up!
Cheers
nils faerber
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