Interesting new 'Open' Hardware how do I build shr for it?

2010-11-29 Thread c_c
Hi, I was looking at arowboat.org - which is a project at getting Android working on all TI OMAP series boards and I saw a link to opensourcemid.org. Apparently, Embest (who also make the DevKit 8000 - a beagle board like board) have made a 7 MID with GPS, camera, mini PCIe (they have a WCDMA

Re: Interesting new 'Open' Hardware how do I build shr for it?

2010-11-29 Thread c_c
Oh! I forgot, it also has 1 mini usb, 2 normal USB ports (keyboard anyone!), a mic, front-facing camera with the connections for a rear facing one on the board, a UART output, SIM slot, TF card slot, audio out and video out. Seems to have pretty much covered everything out there.

Re: Interesting new 'Open' Hardware how do I build shr for it?

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Jansa
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:24:57AM -0800, c_c wrote: So here are my questions :- 1. How do I port SHR to this device (or any other for that matter) Mostly equals to adding support for that device in OpenEmbedded (conf/machine/*.conf) BUG-2.0 (bug20.conf) is using same OMAP, so it shouldn't

Re: Interesting new 'Open' Hardware how do I build shr for it?

2010-11-29 Thread c_c
Hi Martin, Can you elaborate? Say I add another conf file to conf/machine/ called K7.conf. How do I now make a root image for this arch? Of course, I intend keeping my build system intact for the FR too. So how do I get bitbake to build images for both in different places on my file system.

Re: Interesting new 'Open' Hardware how do I build shr for it?

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Jansa
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:41:18AM -0800, c_c wrote: Hi Martin, Can you elaborate? Say I add another conf file to conf/machine/ called K7.conf. How do I now make a root image for this arch? Of course, I intend keeping my build system intact for the FR too. So how do I get bitbake to build

Re: Interesting new 'Open' Hardware how do I build shr for it?

2010-11-29 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] community now. They claim to be 'open' - maybe the community can see if they truly are. I am not an expert in this matter, but it looks like they provide only electronic schematics. What would be more useful are PCB layouts and some CAD casing drawings. You could compare this to

Re: kernel patch to improve the desktop interactivity under system strain

2010-11-29 Thread sam tygier
On 28/11/10 22:47, imatveev13 wrote: A report on kernel improvement was posted: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_2637_videonum=1 The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders Published on November 16, 2010 Written by Michael Larabel The patch is more geared to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qi-bootmenu-0.2

2010-11-29 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Sábado 27 Noviembre 2010 15:46:03 Marc Andre Tanner escribió: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:41:10PM +0100, David Garabana Barro wrote: O Mércores, 6 de Outubro de 2010, Marc Andre Tanner escribiu: If you flash the above Qi version, pressing AUX should boot from NAND and thus present the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qi-bootmenu-0.2

2010-11-29 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Sábado 27 Noviembre 2010 15:46:03 Marc Andre Tanner escribió: If I create noboot-GTA02 on every uSD partition, menu is booted, but if I select any uSD partition from bootmenu, it allways boot the distro on /dev/mmcblk0p5 Don't know what the problem could be, you could try to ssh into