Re: Debian on Zaurus status?
* Major A (andras@users.sourceforge.net) wrote:
>
> > Your script sounds more like debootstrap, which runs on a Linux system and
> > bootstraps a Debian system.
>
> I ended up using debootstrap, which didn't work properly, so I had to
> chroot to a copy of the root directory on a CF card, dpkg-reconfigure
> all the packages, etc., but now there's a (hopefully) rather clean
> flashable installation of Debian/sarge at
>
> http://zdebian.dyndns.org/
>
> It's raw, it's big, and it hasn't got much useful software on it, but
> it's a good basis for building a Debian-based system, I hope. It also
> proves to me that the kernel needs a lot of work still. The SHARP
> kernel patch is simply a bunch of dirty hacks which needs to be
> cleaned up.
The OpenZaurus 2.4.21 collie (5000d/5500) tree is exactly that. Some
drivers cleaned up, some thrown out completely and rewritten. Lots of
hacks were removed, along with code sections that aren't even utilized
in the binaries used (e.g. XIP).
The plan is to merge in the necessary bits from the
poodle/corgi/husky/shepherd trees (c7x0 and 5600) into our clean 2.4.21
tree, and then move on to pushing forward Zaurus support into 2.6.
--
Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org
Embedded Linux Developer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
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