May 28th, 2010
So after a morning of joy expecting kexecboot to be implemented and ready for testing, I ran into a small issue. UbiFS is currently not one of the supported filesystems it is preconfigured to probe. Well looks like I have come coding to do 
. Also I’m going to be elimating the emergency initrd from prior releases. Why you ask? Well for starters most users only boot to this emergency space when flashing, so why retain this post install? What I’m going to do is implement an ncurses based menu that will allow for the choice of flashing the OS to NAND, SD/MMC or CF/MD or dropping to the console for troubleshooting. These will both be a part of the installer.
More to come later…
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May 28th, 2010
So it does boot for me… lets see if it boots for you! *this is just for C1000,3100 and 3200*
pdaXrom-spitz-r1435-armel-linux-gnueabi-uboot.zip
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May 27th, 2010
Well after a few posts regarding Apple and it’s various products, I think I should post something the community the follows my blog would possibly be interested in. I ran a build last night and it completed successfully (r1429 I believe). The next step would be to try and flash it. The guts would include 2.6.34, but I haven’t looked at any of the improvements associated with this release but hope to find out soon. Well if this flash ends up being a success I will upload to get a community ‘yay or nay’
Well I know this is short but hopefull we will have an image posted tomorrow!
Until next time…
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May 1st, 2010
Battle of conforming or using the device standard. Well as most Zaurus users know kexecboot is pretty much the flawless and easy to use bootloader supporting booting kernels from just about any kernel supported linux based filesystem. OpenEmbedded, Angstrom and Zubuntu use this as there primary bootloader and from my view this seems the way to go. The reason being the simple fact that there is no industry supported bootloader for the zaurus and why reinvent the wheel. Currently pdaXrom uses uboot as it’s primary bootloader, but what is the benefit over kexecboot? Comment with your thoughts.
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April 28th, 2010
Well if you recall back to my blog post entitled “What do you use?” you will see that I was trying to determine which OS to use on my development system. This would be the workstation I use when my zaurus isn’t big enough and my dell netbook isn’t powerful enough. Now lets refer back to my prior post “Adjusting to change” and you will see that I introduced myself to the world of Mac OSX and was quite pleased. Well your probably thinking I bought a Mac? Wrong! but close. Well I hacked on a version of Mac OSX onto my workstation. Now here is were the “fan boy”part comes in. I am OVERLY impressed with the setup on both systems that I’m slowly thinking (and I mean thinking) about switching cellular carriers (and dropping the Linux driven Palm Pre) to move to the iPhone once the new iPhone HD is released. Now granted I will loose the great data plan I’m on now, but I will gain another addicting Apple OS driven device. So when is enough, enough?
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April 15th, 2010
This week a few changes have occurred that is still taking me a little time to adjust myself with, some for the better, some for the worst. On a positive note I’ve added and build 2.6.33.2 to the builder. Still working with the Zaurus related patches, but I haven’t had a chance to flash this kernel, but will do so shortly. Also related to the Kernel is kexecboot, which I’m still trying to learn but as stated before, if any one can give me some details on it would appreciate it.
So announced this week Palm is on the market, so what does this say for the Pre and WebOS? Only time will tell. As for the palm pre developement, it has been put on hold pending me getting a better hand on the EXCESSIVE amount of kernel patches. Im hoping that soon they will release a slimmer version of these patches and hopefully on a current kernel.
So the iPad has arrived over a week ago and the buzz seems to be over. Which I expected but not this soon. Do anyone have one? Keep in mind I still would love to have a device LIKE the ipad but running Linux. This is where the JooJoo Pad comes in BUT the only draw back I have is the 12 in screen which is too large for my liking, but it spec’d GREAT. I would definantly take a demo unit to play around around with to get a good feel (wink, wink).
Last topic would be Hackintosh. Well I’ve am and have been Linux guy for years, but after acquiring my Dell Mini 10v I read multiple threads about the community running OSX 10.6 on there netbooks and after running 9.10 for a month or so I decided to test out OSX. Well let just say I’ve been running Snow Leopard for just about 2 months and it is going to stay. <fanboy> I just love how everything just WORKS.</fanboy> If you have a 10v check it out.
Well until (a hopefully sooner) next time…
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PS. Thanks for Offroadgeek for bringing back oesf.org.
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April 5th, 2010
I spoke with Offroadgeek (owner of the dns record) and he is getting the run around with Dreamhost with this whole “expiring dns record” stuff. Well he has paid but it still states pending delete. We are hoping the site will be back online shortly. If you need a quick “forum fix” you can find a work around in the comments section under oesf.og down?
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March 31st, 2010
Well as of right now I’m in the process of another job switch… Sorta. Changing employers but doing basically the same job in the same location. Though there are negatives in this move there are also positives that should give me stability for the future.
Next would be my company. Well I’m trying to establish myself as a embedded developer but it is sorta hard to get myself known unless I start working on a highly visible project. My initial thoughts were to port android to the palm pre but I think that may get me in more trouble then benefiting me.
So where do I go next? Beagle board? Writing apps/patches for WebOS?
Ps. I plan on changing the bootloader of pdaXrom for zaurus to kexec. Someone got to tips for me?
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March 25th, 2010
I dont know if it is an issue with Comcast (broadband ISP) or what… but I cant get to it.
I’m I the only one?
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March 12th, 2010
Just this morning as I was logging on to my development desktop I noticed X was frozen.(Yippy) Well after rebooting my Gnome would fail to load, GDM loaded correctly and after 10min of troubleshooting I determined it was something screwy with gnome and my dual display setup. Well mirrored displays don’t help me any so instead of screwing with it anymore I’m going to reload the box. What I’m looking for now is suggestions on the what OS to load?
What distro do you use (suggest)?
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