Linux/Opie/Angstroem on Fujitsu Siemens Loox 420

Linux/Opie/Angstroem on Fujitsu Siemens Loox 420

[harald]

Hello,

managed to build a complete opie-image with
openembedded. Read that my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox is very similar
to HP Ipaq 4000. So i built system for this machine type. Unfortunately
the system does not start througth. It hangs after "freeing init
memory:88k", then some lines appear with some bluetooth informations.
That's all. System seems to run still, gives me some messages after i
did some inputs to the touchscreen, maybe basic initialisation fails or
there is something wrong with busybox?  Do you know what i can do to get
opie, anstrong running on my machine? is it possible to generate a
customized installation on openembedded for this kind of machines? 

Thank you for any tip.

Regards, harald. 

Re: Linux/Opie/Angstroem on Fujitsu Siemens Loox 420

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.03.2009, 16:02 +0100 schrieb harald:
> managed to build a complete opie-image with
> openembedded. Read that my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox is very similar
> to HP Ipaq 4000. So i built system for this machine type. Unfortunately
> the system does not start througth. It hangs after "freeing init
> memory:88k", then some lines appear with some bluetooth informations.
> That's all.

Sounds like an EABI/OABI kernel/userland problem. Make sure your kernel
contains the ABI support you build userland with.

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:M:

Re: Linux/Opie/Angstroem on Fujitsu Siemens Loox 420

[harald]

hello,

this cannot be enabled while using a gcc version below 4.0. The
following text is in kernel help 

"Use the ARM EABI to compile the kernel (AEABI)

This option allows for the kernel to be compiled using the latest
ARM ABI (aka EABI). This is only useful if you are using a user
space environment that is also compiled with EABI.

Since there are major incompatibilities between the legacy ABI and
EABI, especially with regard to structure member alignment, this
option also changes the kernel syscall calling convention to
disambiguate both ABIs and allow for backward compatibility support
(selected with CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT).

To use this you need GCC version 4.0.0 or later."

Used the kernel which was built together with "opie-image", did not yet
look if this feature is enabled in this kernel.

Regards, Harald.

Am Mittwoch, den 04.03.2009, 18:25 +0100 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
> Am Mittwoch, den 04.03.2009, 16:02 +0100 schrieb harald:
> > managed to build a complete opie-image with
> > openembedded. Read that my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox is very similar
> > to HP Ipaq 4000. So i built system for this machine type. Unfortunately
> > the system does not start througth. It hangs after "freeing init
> > memory:88k", then some lines appear with some bluetooth informations.
> > That's all.
> 
> Sounds like an EABI/OABI kernel/userland problem. Make sure your kernel
> contains the ABI support you build userland with.
> 

Re: Linux/Opie/Angstroem on Fujitsu Siemens Loox 420

[harald]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.03.2009, 18:25 +0100 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
> Am Mittwoch, den 04.03.2009, 16:02 +0100 schrieb harald:
> > managed to build a complete opie-image with
> > openembedded. Read that my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox is very similar
> > to HP Ipaq 4000. So i built system for this machine type. Unfortunately
> > the system does not start througth. It hangs after "freeing init
> > memory:88k", then some lines appear with some bluetooth informations.
> > That's all.
> 
> Sounds like an EABI/OABI kernel/userland problem. Make sure your kernel
> contains the ABI support you build userland with.
> 

Hello,

now i have compiled a kernel with EABI/OABI support for my loox. it
workes with all precomiled images from angstrom org or
http://amethyst.openembedded.net/~koen/narcissus/

unfortunately it does not work for any kind of root image i created with
OE. none of those worked yet. i don't think that this is a problem of my
kernel now. the built in kernel of some rootfs images does also not
start and seems to hang with the same message/point.

hope someone will be able to help me. 

thanks.

Linux/Opie/Angstroem on Fujitsu Siemens Loox 420

[harald]

Hello,

managed to build a complete opie-image with
openembedded. Read that my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox is very similar
to HP Ipaq 4000. So i built system for this machine type. Unfortunately
the system does not start througth. It hangs after "freeing init
memory:88k", then some lines appear with some bluetooth informations.
That's all. System seems to run still, gives me some messages after i
did some inputs to the touchscreen, maybe basic initialisation fails or
there is something wrong with busybox?  Do you know what i can do to get
opie, anstrong running on my machine? is it possible to generate a
customized installation on openembedded for this kind of machines? 

Thank you for any tip.

Regards, harald.