Dear OpenEmbedded gurus, I'm trying to get as much liberated software as possible on my Motorola A780 (a PDA, GPS device, music and video player, mobile telephone, mobile Internet terminal, etc.).
Although the OpenEZX project is currently working on completely replacing the software on the A780, what they have so far can not yet handle many vital hardware devices (for example, the GSM telephone functionality and recharging the battery) and it may be quite some time before every hardware device is handled. Therefore, I would like to use the OpenEmbedded framework to generate binaries that will work with the software already installed on the A780. Preferably, the binaries I generate will link with the shared libraries already used on the A780 to conserve memory. I've followed the instructions at <URL:http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/GettingStarted> as far as I can. I now need to figure out what to put in my build/conf/local.conf file and I am quite stuck. Mickey Lauer suggested that something similar to org.openembedded.dev/conf/distro/sharprom-compatible.conf could be done for the A780 firmware. However, I don't understand things well enough to see what to do. Can I get help here? For your information, the A780 is running Linux 2.4.20 modified by Monta Vista. It has glibc 2.3.2 and Qt/Embedded. (How do I tell the version of the Qt/Embedded libraries?) It has an Intel PXA270 CPU. I can supply other details on request. By the way, the first programs I'd like to be able to build from OpenEmbedded are: busybox (with the right set of applets), dropbear, file, unison (not working now?), ldd, ltrace, strace, rsync, opie-todo, opie-zsafe, kopi and pwmpi (both part of pi-sync a.k.a. kdepimpi), opie-embeddedkonsole and/or opie-console I also need to figure out how to get the gui clients to hook into the windowing environment on the A780. Thanks for any help you can provide! -- Joe Wells _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
