On 1/19/07, Pierre GAUFILLET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am looking for informations regarding the build of initrd and basic system. JeDi : could you explain how you proceed ?
I'll have a look this weekend. I'm now stuck in windows at work. But if I remember correctly, building an initrd isn't that hard. Actually, it's just a gzipped filesystem image. I think with mke2fs, you can choose to create an ext2 image as a file. You then mount that, but all necessary files in it, unmount and gzip it. I just started from the initrd that was current back then. It still has a lot of aximx30-specific stuff in it, so it's far from ideal. In the initrd, I put everything that was necessary to initialize hardware (first of all the display driver, then touchscreen, ...). After that, it mounted the rootfs image and chrooted to that. The rootfs image I created was started from the handhelds.org images (opie-based). The latest version had the lcd working, and touchscreen was almost working. If I remember correctly, there was a lot of development going on to provide drivers for the chipset our machine uses for the touchscreen. I'm sorry, it has been half a year, I don't remember everything :-) But I'll look at it this weekend...
What about using the debian tools to build all that stuff and run a debian distribution on Axims ?
I think it is better to use the familiar distribution. It is derived from debian if I remember correctly, but optimised for pdas. Greetz, JeDi -- _______________________________________________ Aximx50-port mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/aximx50-port
