IRC log for #openzaurus on 20070623

00:01.17JesseG2hi CoreDump|home, hitz
00:02.08JesseG2I have collie, but have not tried angstrom.
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00:21.09summatusmentisJesseG2: I'm in the middle of building an angstrom collie image
00:21.45summatusmentisthe issue I've seen is that none of the x11/opie images are currently configured to fit on the internal ram of the collie, the way around this would be loopback imaging
01:11.40Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: flash the angstrom kernel to the collie, but have the rootfs on loopback
01:11.51Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I'm guessing
01:12.25summatusmentiscan you do that?
01:13.07Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I would make a very small image with the kernel modules + pivot_root (or whatever does that now) and flash that and the kernel
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01:16.00summatusmentiswell, console-iimage fits, then in theory I could use altboot, and just use that to boot the SD
01:16.19summatusmentisI guess I assumed it booted the kernel from the rootfs, but maybe not?
01:18.08Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I assumed it booted the kernel in the flash because otherwise how would it know to boot the kernel for a loopback? with no kernel, how can you loopback? is the boot-loader actually that cool?
01:18.19Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I reiterate, I *assume*
01:18.33summatusmentisright, I guess that makes sense
01:18.43summatusmentisI'm used to a desktop, where the kernel is located in the rootfs
01:19.23Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: even still, if you move the kernel you have to tell your boot loader where you put it... and I don't know any bootloader that loads a kernel to boot from a loopback
01:19.45summatusmentisI guess that's true
01:20.15Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: despite my logic, I do not really know, so you may try it and find out.  should be obvious.
01:21.00summatusmentisyeah, I can figure it out, if I can figure out why cups wants to be root to build :-/
01:21.23Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I have a fix for that in bug tracker that no one has been nice enough to fix.
01:21.54Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: of course I'm the black sheep of OE so, what do I expect.
01:22.03summatusmentisblack sheep? why?
01:22.13summatusmentisis it pretty straightforward?
01:22.22Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: extremely straight forward
01:22.42summatusmentisI assume the reason it hasn't been commited is all?
01:22.48Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: chmod 755 one folder in the tmp/work/cups-$(PV)/image I think
01:23.17summatusmentisI'll find it in a bit
01:23.26Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I don't know why it has not been commited. I didn't fix the .bb I just wrote the fix
01:23.50summatusmentishrm.... how does one get commit access?
01:24.12Zero_Chaosit is offered to you after hard work and dedication, oh yeah, and popularity
01:25.34summatusmentisI sense some... resentment?
01:26.04Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: yeah, but let's not do that dance.  I'm trying to behave.
01:26.43summatusmentisalright, sorry
01:26.48Zero_Chaosno problem
01:26.56Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: but yeah, the quick fix works for me.
01:27.14summatusmentisalright, I'll go find it in a bit, watching a walkthrough of the iPhone :-)
01:28.14summatusmentisany idea what the # is?
01:28.26Zero_Chaosone sec
01:29.55Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: 2492, it was marked inaccurate and closed by a certain OE dev that doesn't like me
01:31.35Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: there is a fix for it here: http://bugs.openembedded.org/attachment.cgi?id=1501
01:32.03Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: that is also a hack, but if you add that you won't have to manually chmod every time you rebuild cups
01:32.42summatusmentisI'm looking at the bug that 2492 was marked as a duplicate of... why they don't fix this I don't understand
01:33.33summatusmentisZero_Chaos: alright, thanks, I'll just chmod it, but this is just stupid :-/
01:37.26Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I am guessing the only "proper" enough fix is to have it fixed upstream. But putting the hack a I pasted would be advisable for now.... of course, I don't know why someone with commit access was going around marking bugs incorrect and then not fixing them... I'm guessing because that certain dev didn't have the issue it is not a "real" issue
01:39.15summatusmentiswell, I have noticed some... discrepancies in people's bug confirmation. However, I do know that he does triage quite a bit, so it's possible he's working on something else, and not focusing on angstrom
01:41.36Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: what's funny it, I succeed in the test given on the surviving bug report, but cups still fails to build...
01:41.39Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: very odd
01:42.08summatusmentiscups worked building for me
01:44.02summatusmentisI've spent 3 days getting it to build
01:44.59summatusmentisand I broke it, on sysvinit
01:45.54Zero_Chaoshmmm, cups builds fine for me now.
01:46.11summatusmentiscups built, sysvinit hates me :-P
01:49.16Zero_Chaossi
01:49.19Zero_Chaossorry
01:52.14summatusmentisno worries
01:52.38summatusmentisactually, I'm about to head out
01:52.50summatusmentisI'll keep working on this image
01:52.59summatusmentisJesseG2: this is turning out to be harder than expected
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07:36.56JesseG2summatusmentis, wow thanks for all the effort! I really appreciate it! Feel free to bail at any time it that it becomes too much of a bother.
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07:37.38JesseG2By the way, as far as I know, I don't use my built in 14mb rom fs for anything except to launch altboot, w
07:38.24JesseG2which seems to then (I'm guessing) load the kernel and everything off of my SD card via a loop image. But come to think of it, I don't really know where my kernel resides.
07:39.07JesseG2I guess it could be that the kernel is actually in the loop image, and altboot knows how to go get the kernel from the loop image. I'll reboot and see if I get kernel messages before altboot.
07:41.58JesseG2Well, the very first thing to show up is the Opie logo, then there's a short message about some non existant tty or something, then it says press any key to launch altboot.
07:42.17JesseG2then it goes on, if i recall correctly, to mount the root fs and so on and so forth.
07:54.29JesseG2Well, I'm just not too sure. It seems unlikely that the bootloader would mount a filesystem to find the kernel, but on the other hand, the bootloader (altboot) unquestionably can prompt the user which root fs image they wish to boot.
07:57.26JesseG2well, i can't figure it out. there is a 'zImage' symlink in /boot/ and /media/ROM/boot/ but they both are symlinks to /boot/zImage-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix  which doesn't seem to exist anywere! The only place I can find an actual binary zImage file is on my CF card which, as far as I know, isn't needed to boot.
08:00.10JesseG2Alright, it boots just fine without the CF card, just as I thought. (It's rootfs is a 600MB loop file on SD card.)
08:01.17JesseG2How it boots when I can't find any actual zImage.
08:01.50JesseG2(I did a find / > /files then I grep that for stuff. Anyway, I'm off to bed. Thanks! bye. jesseg (at symbol) nikola (dawt) see oh em.
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14:18.24mimecarhi
14:32.46mimecarcand fbreader remember last page of a document ?
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14:34.43CoreDump|afkIf it can, I don't know how to do it. Which sucks
14:35.15mimecaryou can add a bookmark, but is not useful
14:36.04CoreDump|afkfbreader sucks big time compared to opie reader =(
14:36.42mimecarCoreDump|afk: do you know palm software ?
14:37.04mimecarthere are some ebook readers, very simple, but usegul
14:37.13CoreDump|afknope, I don't
14:37.18mimecarand the programs on zaurus are very complex
14:38.03mimecarit looks fbreader remember page
14:38.13mimecarbut not position inside the page
14:41.20mimecarCoreDump|afk: is there an option on configuration to change toolbar size ?
14:41.56CoreDump|afkmimecar: no, that is a compile-time setting which I tend to fix for SL-Cxx00 when I get the chance
14:42.11mimecarare you the developer ?
14:42.43CoreDump|afkI am one of many
14:43.19mimecarwhat would be more useful
14:43.34mimecaradd a feature or create a simpler program (for myself) ?
14:45.02CoreDump|afkthat's up to you =) Adding a new feature to an already existing program would be faster IMO
14:46.13mimecarwhat's the code language ?
14:51.15CoreDump|afkc I'd guess
14:51.36mimecarok
15:25.14summatusmentisCoreDump|afk: ping
15:25.28mimecarhi summatusmentis
15:25.54summatusmentishi mimecar
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16:17.53JesseG2Good morning
16:35.45CoreDump|afksummatusmentis: pong
17:05.39JesseG2bye for a while=)
17:09.33summatusmentisCoreDump: where is the kernel stored on the collie? is it rootfs?
17:09.59summatusmentisin other words, when running a loopback, does the loopback image get mounted so the kernel is lodaded
17:10.02summatusmentisloaded*
17:10.33CoreDumpthe kernel is stored in a separate flash partition
17:10.50CoreDumpyou can _not_ use a kernel from the rootfs w/o kexec
17:11.43summatusmentisok, so you flash console image(or whatever), then altboot just changes where the rootfs is located?
17:11.50CoreDumpright
17:12.06CoreDumpthe kernel stays the same
17:12.23summatusmentisalright, so then, JesseG2 could use a 2.6 console image on collie, and then loop mount a working OZ opie image from sd?
17:12.44summatusmentisassuming we could get altboot working on console?(it should, it's in the feeds)
17:13.40CoreDumpthe OZ image would lack all kernel modules and would be incompatible to kernel 2.6 in general as it is based on 2.4
17:14.00summatusmentiscompletely incomaptible?
17:14.33Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: yeah, you need to put the right kernel modules in the rootfs, not a big deal
17:14.40CoreDumpmostly unfixable for non-linux-experts. It would be full of bugs
17:14.55Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: of course, why not use angstrom instead of OZ anyway?
17:15.02CoreDumpexactly
17:15.04CoreDumpbbl
17:15.13summatusmentisZero_Chaos: true, he's just got a working image of OZ, and I don't think he's got OE setup
17:15.36summatusmentisI'm having a bitch of a time building a _console_ image for collie, let alone x11 or opie
17:15.42Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: yes but while we are reflashing to upgrade him, why not do it right.
17:15.51Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: building "angstrom-console-image" from .dev?
17:16.21summatusmentisZero_Chaos: yeah, I am. And he's running loopback, not flash
17:16.36summatusmentisI was gonna give him the console image for flash, but then he'd altboot to loopback
17:16.48summatusmentisthat's assuming I could get it working
17:19.17summatusmentishey, I'm gonna go eat, be back later this eve.
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20:45.05mimecarhi
20:45.16summatusmentishi mimecar
20:45.19NeolinkHello
20:45.45summatusmentishey there NAbyss
20:45.53summatusmentissorrry NAbyss :-)
20:45.56summatusmentishi Neolink
20:46.05Neolinkhi
20:46.17NeolinkHow do u do?
20:47.01summatusmentisI'm very well, and yourself?
20:47.21NeolinkOk, thank
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20:48.49summatusmentisumm.... he came to ask me how i was?
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20:49.14summatusmentiswelcome back :-)
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21:03.18NeolinkHi
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21:06.11Zero_Chaoscan someone put a short ban on neolink until he stops join/part ing?
21:06.32summatusmentisI don't understand what he's doing... I'm assuming it's potentially an accident
21:06.56Zero_Chaossummatusmentis: I would believe that if he was quitting, but it's a part, he is just joining and leaving this room
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21:17.09mimecarre
22:39.07JesseG2Hi guys!
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