[Angstrom-devel] Netbook Pro mentor/interest/moving forward?
Hello all I have a Netbook pro which I'm very interested in running Linux on - it seems to be a great machine hardware wise, and Angstrom would be near perfect for it. I've seen screenshots that suggest that Koen has had OZ running on the machine: that's great, and suggests that this is absolutely possible! I've also seen that Jon Bradbury is trying to pull together information in the Wiki, but I couldn't see his contact details anywhere. From an OE perspective, it seems Florian and Koen are the keys, but I didn't want to just mail them out of the blue as I'm sure they have far too many people bothering them directly already ;-) Is there an update as to the port's status? I've checked the wiki, both sites, the FAQ and OE. Assuming it's still in the early stages, which approach is being taken to putting the distro on the machine: is the BoOST approach (overwriting the firmware) preferred, or can we go with HaRET? It seems that Windows CE copies itself from the flash on boot as approximately 40MB of the 128MB disappears from the available memory within WinCE, so if we have to use HaRET we'd probably be losing less than that. My experience in low level hacking is limited, and work and family life don't like leaving me much spare time, but I'd like to help move this on. Is anyone on here already working on this, and do you know what work is needed? There's a few people at HPCFactor.com forums that would be interested in running this too, so there might be a team of willing testers at the very least. Cheers, Nick. ___ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
Re: [Angstrom-devel] Soft freeze for 2007.x
On 10/13/07, Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to propose a soft freeze on angstrom-2007.1.conf in order to get something stable for the planned december release[1]. The basic idea is that version bumps for bug- and security fixes go in, but anything else will require discussion on the mailinglist. That's great news. It brings up a few questions. When will a separate branch be created? Can machines and images (not packages or revisions) be added to the new branch? How long will the release be maintained? (As an aside, it might be helpful to track revision numbers of a release like Ubuntu, so when they do security updates, Angstrom does security updates.) -- Todd ___ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
Re: [Angstrom-devel] Netbook Pro mentor/interest/moving forward?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Latito schreef: Hello all I have a Netbook pro which I'm very interested in running Linux on - it seems to be a great machine hardware wise, and Angstrom would be near perfect for it. I've seen screenshots that suggest that Koen has had OZ running on the machine: that's great, and suggests that this is absolutely possible! I've also seen that Jon Bradbury is trying to pull together information in the Wiki, but I couldn't see his contact details anywhere. From an OE perspective, it seems Florian and Koen are the keys, but I didn't want to just mail them out of the blue as I'm sure they have far too many people bothering them directly already ;-) Is there an update as to the port's status? I've checked the wiki, both sites, the FAQ and OE. Assuming it's still in the early stages, which approach is being taken to putting the distro on the machine: is the BoOST approach (overwriting the firmware) preferred, or can we go with HaRET? It seems that Windows CE copies itself from the flash on boot as approximately 40MB of the 128MB disappears from the available memory within WinCE, so if we have to use HaRET we'd probably be losing less than that. My experience in low level hacking is limited, and work and family life don't like leaving me much spare time, but I'd like to help move this on. Is anyone on here already working on this, and do you know what work is needed? There's a few people at HPCFactor.com forums that would be interested in running this too, so there might be a team of willing testers at the very least. Your best bet is to work with Jon Bradbury (CC:ed) to test his program that generates a boost header. Once we can succesfully boot a 2.6.9 kernel image with that, we can look at updating the kernel port (mostly forward porting the pcon driver to the new i2c code). regards, Koen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHE35OMkyGM64RGpERAgwkAKCyPt590+iHFwHOMhxiCy45ep6OxgCgmwYt 5PHrdVxuZaFMd90L65FJKrY= =lCPt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
