Quoting Mark and Janice Juszczec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Micah, Tasnim, Jason and anyone else involved > > Sorry for the delay. > > I just loaded picolinux-helio.20011010.bin.gz from > picolinux.sourceforge.net > onto my Helio. > > This is a great piece of work! You all have made phenomenal progress! > Thank you.
Glad you like it :) There aren't any actual applications for it yet, but the infrastructure is definitely coming into shape. The nice thing about portable software is that advances in PicoGUI will benefit all platforms it has been ported to. > > Can I tell the Helio gang on www.pdabuzz.com to check out your work? > I think there are some folks who'd be very interested. That would be great. We can always use more help. > > I've seen the vhl-tools instructions for building Helio ROM images. Is > that > how you built this image? Is the code you used to build this image in > > dist-helio and linux-helio in the Browse CVS link from your website? - dist-helio contains individual binaries for the kernel and userland, scripts to assemble that into a romdisk, and source for the bootloader. - linux-helio has the source code for the kernel used in dist-helio. It is basically a PocketLinux kernel with a couple bugfixes in power management and video. - All the PicoGUI binaries are compiled from the source CVS at picogui.org - uClibc, busybox, and other projects currently aren't as 'clean' as the PicoGUI binaries, in that there may be small tweaks necessary to get things to compile for the Helio and these aren't included. After seeing the 'buildroot' system that the TuxScreen project uses, it would be neat to have something similar for Pico/Linux. > What > would I have to do to make it work with VTech's Windows based emulator? > Do > you know of a Linux based Helio emulator? I haven't tried these ROMs under the emulator because I don't know of a Linux-based emulator. (Actually, I've seen a Linux helio emulator but it wouldn't boot the vhl-tools image) Pico/Linux uses the bootloader from vhl-tools linux, so you might see if vhl-tools has some documentation about using it with the emulator. If you just want a way to write and debug PicoGUI apps on the desktop, you don't need to use the Helio emulator. You can download PicoGUI and run it in a window on your PC. There is even a 'skin' feature that makes the PicoGUI window look and act like a Helio emulator. > Can I still use minicom to connect to a Helio running your latest > image? Yes. There are still problems with rz and backspace, for example, but you should be able to get a shell prompt. > > As my time frees up between work and studying for Sun's Java > programmer's > test, I'd love to help with your project. How can I contribute? We need applications, especially a PIM. If you want to help debug Helio-specific issues like the serial port problems, I can give you access to the Pico/Linux CVS server. Of course there are many bugs and feature requests for PicoGUI itself that you could work on. It really depends on how deep you want to wade in the PicoGUI source code. If you'd rather handle packaging issues than working on the PicoGUI code, you could help maintain Pico/Linux. If you want to learn the PicoGUI API, you can write applications. If you want to wade through the depths of pgserver, you can help fix problems with it and add new APIs and features. > > Thanks again for everything > > Mark > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel > -- Only you can prevent creeping featurism! _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
