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Subject:    [Openzaurus-devel] Re: [Openzaurus-users] Status of 3.5.3?
From:       Keith Matthews <keith () au1 ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2005-02-17 5:18:29
Message-ID: 200502171618.29406.keith () au ! ibm ! com
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:13 am, Chris Larson wrote:
> * Michael 'Mickey' Lauer (mickey@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de) wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 15.02.2005, 12:37 -0500 schrieb Danny Brow:
> > > What's the status of 3.5.3? Should we be expecting if for March?
> > > Looking forward to a little more stability with the 6000L.
> >
> > Yes, we seem to be on track for a mid march release. I doubt that it
> > will be much more stable though, since we didn't receive (m)any patches
> > from 6000 users.
>
> So.. what are the current SL-6000L blocking issues?  I'm certainly
> willing to try to find some time to fix issues, but I haven't _used_
> mine enough to have hit most of them myself.

Hi Chris,

At the moment, using a kernel (openzaurus-pxa-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-r34) I 
just compiled yesterday, there seems to be several problems I would consider 
blocking.

Kernel Stuff

1. The SD card seems to have issues. Although I can create and ext2 FS on it 
and it appears to be quite quick, as soon as you try and write any files 
larger than a few blocks it slows down to < 5kB/sec and eventually hangs. The 
error log shows heaps of spurious errors about Disk changes that are not 
actually happening  (I can get you some output if you want it.). Its not the 
card as when I load the Original 3.5.2 from the OZ feed its all fine.

2. The CF Card seems to have similar problems but copes better at approx 
20kB/sec. (Still much slower than with the original OZ 3.5.2. kernel). Once 
again meta data ops and tiny files are OK, but as soon as you get over a few 
blocks in size, bang, all seems to slow down. I suspect a timing issue of 
some sort. But i am not a coder 8-(. Occasionally during boot you see similar 
spurious disk swap errors, but no where near as many as the SD.

3. Sound seems to be dead. The kernel boot reports that the TOSA AC97 is 
initialised, but in opie the sound applet is permanently muted. and no other 
prog can produce sound. Even the clock alarm. Now I am not sure if there is 
another package I need to load that is not in the opie-kdepim-image to use 
sound. I tried loading alsa and alsa-oss etc to no avail.

4. None of the special buttons or the STBY and REC buttons do anything in 
opie, even if you reprogram them. 1 or 2 produce garbage in on the terminal 
when pressed whilst in the console mode.


One good point STBY from the O Menu Works great, as does the battery aplet 
now, (it now seems to sense a full battery.) And also the apmd and backlight 
controls are all fully functional. (Great work whoever 8-)

I am happy to help with testing whatever you need on SL-6000L, now that I have 
a functional OE environment.  


-- 
Best Regards

Keith Matthews
IBM LTC Ozlabs
Canberra, Australia.

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