[Angstrom-distro-users] [oe] Angstrom and h2200

[Romain Quidet]

Hello,

I'm using a h2210 and I've been able to play with familiar distrib with 
a SD card and Haret booting the 2nd partition as rootfs. I downloaded 
the last angstrom gpe image from your unstable repository, but this 
image does not boot on my ipaq, as I explained in a previous post this 
month.
After the kernel message "freeing init memory : 100K", nothing move 
on... it is stuck at this point.

Can you help me by giving any hint I can try ?

Thank you!

Romain

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello Nicola,
>
> Friday, February 23, 2007, 2:26:36 PM, you wrote:
>
>   
>> Hoping i'm not boring you
>>     
>
>   No, but this is OpenEmbedded list. Your report would give more use
> if posted to the proper list - angstrom-distro-users (where I route
> this reply).
>
>   
>> New test images boots over my ipaq h2200, and bug #1677 is now closed, howewer
>> i had to disable the S10checkroot.sh startup as it wanted to run fsck over a
>> readwrite mounted filesystem, claiming it's very dangerous and asking the
>> user for a confirmation. This should be patched in some manner.
>>     
>
>   Well, this is one boring problem which is very hard to solve,
> because it is rooted in machine idiosyncrasies. You fix it for one
> machine, and it pops up with another, etc., until it goes thru the
> full circle, something changes outside, and the first machine breaks
> again.
>
>   Someone indeed should break this vicious cycle and make a solution
> which either cuts down mentioned idiosyncrasies or flies above them.
>
>   
>> I tried to
>> change the fs to reiserfs, rebuilding the kernel, but i was not lucky. To
>> disable the bootsplash i readed the S00psplash script and patched startup.txt
>> of haret, but to have a console over the frame buffer i ran make menuconfig
>> on the kernel dir, changed the config and after that removed the kernel
>> compile stamp, and runned again bitbake amstrong-gpe-image again.
>> Wath's the official/legacy method to give a different configuration to the
>> kernel?
>>     
>
>   There's an RFC to have consistent (feature-wise) defconfigs for all
> machines. h3900 & h4000 already joined the party. You're welcome to
> work towards h2200 support, please start here: http://defconfigman.sourceforge.net/
>
>   
>> And now some other issues about gpe-image:
>> * the usb0-eth device is not present, is it normal?
>>     
>
>   No, it is not. See about defconfig consistency above.
>
>   
>> * keyboard, fonts are bigger then rects and sometimes i have to hold down the
>> pen to use it, if not the keyboard acts as i pressed the key and a backspace
>>     
>
>   This should be mostly fixed now. Also, there's xkbd which looks much
> better than matchbox-keyboard.
>
>   
>> * i was not able to compile a custom gpe-image (i used the prereleased for
>> tests), the build failed on package freetype with:
>> ./configure: line 2943: i686-pc-linux-gnu: command not found
>> configure: error: native C compiler is not working
>>     
>
>   There's some incompatibility with freetype's configure and your
> gentoo gcc.
>
>   
>> * the last, may i use some kind of emulator before deploying the fs image to
>> the ipaq?
>>     
>
>   Yes, QEMU.
>
>   
>> Best Regards
>>     
>
>   
>>         Nicola Ranaldo
>>     
>
>
>