Re: GPE in Siemens SimPAD

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:35:27 -0500
"Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey.Hicks_at_hp.com> wrote:
> It would be nice to get the simpad support integrated into the
> standard familiar distribution. If the simpad sourceforge project
> maintainers are not on this list, I think someone should contact them
> to see if they would like to join the familiar project.

I just played around with the kernel, making images and so on.
Looks quite promising.
After some fiddeling I got the kernel to compile and eat a JFFS2 as
initial filesystem instead of cramfs. This opens several doors :) But
the kernel is anything from stable or complete. Many functions are
either only half implemented or instable. For example the audio driver
fails after resume. Worse of all is that the PCMCIA support is ...
broken. I got exactly one CF flash card to be accepted. Anything else
was rejected due to very strange reasons. The framebuffer and
touchscreen code has to be reviewed too.

But anyway, it is a really good start!
You can run a kernel and reflash it natively.
This more than on could expect!

I would like to extract the SIMpad specific parts of the kernel and try
to merge with 2.4.19-rmk*-hh* head... I think this should help resolving
lots of problems.

> -Jamey
CU
  nils faerber

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