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armel development

#1 Post by n810 »

i got a nokia n810 and man is this thing powerful. my only problem is that the maemo operating system is total junk. the debian based system is far too large and this makes the computer run too slow. I think that there is a big future for puppy, if somebody cares to develop the software, in the arm, mips, and risc processors. Basically these are the processors that run the telephone and nokia internet tablet devices. I wish to god that somebody would develop a puppy for the nokia n810 so that i could get rid of the ridiculous maemo system on here.

the debian on it works, but it is for a system with 5 times more memory and a processor that's twice as fast as the arm that's on there now. these little computers are the future and somebody should recognize this at puppy. if debian can develop this why can't puppy?

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#2 Post by ARAN »

I am a very proud owner of the Pocket PC Phone XPERIA from Sony Erricsson.
It is one of the best Pocket PC Phones that are available at the market today.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/x1/

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I am planning in the next 12 Month to start porting Puppy Linux to the arm architecture. If you and others have ineresst also for this project please write here.
Porting Puppy Linux to arm isnt a big work.
The big Problem is developing the needed Drivers for the Devices.
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#3 Post by T_B »

ARAN wrote:I am a very proud owner of the Pocket PC XPERIA from Sony Erricsson.
It is one of the best Pocket PC Phones that are available at the market today.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/x1/

I am planning in the next 12 Month to start porting Puppy Linux to the arm architecture. If you and others have ineresst also for this project please write here.
Porting Puppy Linux to arm isnt a big work.
The big Problem is developing the needed Drivers for the Devices.
Interesting, any progress? There are more and more ARM based netbooks around. They are very powerefficient and pretty cheap.
I have ordered a smartq7. It has Ubuntu installed, but it seems to be a little sluggish. WinCE is a lot faster, so I might buy that. Ofcourse I'd rather run linux.
I think Puppy would be great on these devices.

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#4 Post by ARAN »

T_B wrote:Interesting, any progress? There are more and more ARM based netbooks around. They are very powerefficient and pretty cheap.
I have ordered a smartq7. It has Ubuntu installed, but it seems to be a little sluggish. WinCE is a lot faster, so I might buy that. Ofcourse I'd rather run linux.
I think Puppy would be great on these devices.
All you need is this Link here and all your questions and wisches will be fullfilled :-)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Kovsky_Linux
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#5 Post by clarf »

I just read this:

http://www.infoworld.com/print/97762

Another Dave´s vs Goliath fight, who shall win?.

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Ubuntu ported to Pocket PC Phone Xperia X1

#6 Post by ARAN »

Hello to all !

Just wanted to inform you that fatsal was able to Port Ubuntu to the pocket PC Phone Xperia X1.

Here you can read it about !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpos ... tcount=399

Compliments to this guy !

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#7 Post by technosaurus »

if you are really serious about porting to arm I would recommend:

1. selectively merge the debian and barry's kernel config and patches and recompile
2. download woof and do a dpup build using the arm .deb packages (will require editing the url to point to arm vs. x86)
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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#8 Post by ARAN »

Hello technosaurus.

Thank you a lot for your advice.

I have already tryed to create with Woof a Puppy for the armel architecture.

The Thing is that Puppy is first builded mainly around the x86 architekture like CDRom Bootscrpts that access Cdrom Binarys, a lot of self created and compiled Programms and simmilar things that normally dont exist on armel devices like mobile Phones .

Second. A lot of Programms has to be Crosscompiled and Patched for the armel architekture too.

Becouse of this Tasks and the big Effort as it is not a very easy Undertaken i have decided to go some other way than using the woof build and the debian/ubuntu packages.

I am at the moment more working toward a Opie and a GPE Desktop system than a Puppy Distro however some other Projects have a bigger Priority becouse of the big time consumption of the Project.

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#9 Post by ARAN »

clarf wrote:Another Dave´s vs Goliath fight, who shall win?.
I would say that in the next 5 Years for sure Armel has good chances to Increase his Marketshare and Power as it is very strong in the Mobile World ecpecially the Pocket PC World.

On the other Side Intel Processors like Atom has advantages when it comes to Netbooks where the Mobility and the Batterylife is not such a big Problem compared to Mobile Phones or Pocket PC Phones.

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#11 Post by technosaurus »

@ARAN
FWIW, Puppy's architecture is actually mostly lighter than GPE

You may as well use uclibc (vs. glibc) => you can use existing (angstrom, leaf)
or a build system (buildroot, t2, scratchbox, openembedded, ...)

yes, most arm devices don't have or need a cdrom...
That's OK, puppy doesn't _need_ a CD-ROM
(I haven't burned a puppy iso since early in the 2.x series)

focus on usb/compact flash/full install instead ...

you can try bootstrapping with a manual frugal install
(you may need to adapt the grub menu.lst to match up
with an arm boot loader - uboot/barebox/redboot etc..)
If you have a device with an existing bootloader,
I would use that to start. (examples can be a big help)
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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Open Source Smartphone

#12 Post by ARAN »

Hello to All.

Just wanted to report that a new powerfull OpenSource Smartphone Motherboard was recently introduced that run Debian Linux !

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/12/2/openmo ... z1fOvfEvmt
The FreeRunner open-source smartphone has been reborn, with Openmoko's abandoned project being given new life by German company Golden Delicious in the form of a new and more powerful motherboard.

The Features of the new Powerfull Linux Smartphone Motherboard are:
  • DM3730 (800 MHz)
    GTM601W UMTS (HSPA)
    NAND/RAM (512 MB / 512 MB)
    SDHC card up to 32 GByte
    USB 2.0 OTG port
    2.5mm 4 pin stereo headset/microphone jack
    audio in/out, composite video out
    WLAN, Bluetooth
    FM transceiver (optional)
    Barometric Altimeter, Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope (optional)
    GPS (int/ext antenna)
    camera connector (1.3 Mpx)
    torch/flashlight driver (optional)
    display connector (TD028TTEC1)
    2x 60 pin expansion connector (optional)
    stereo speaker support (only for Neo1973 case)
    fits into existing Openmoko case (reversible)
    documentation (incl. schematics) of all GPIO and signal connections to support driver development and extensions
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The Developer Project Page with all needed info like Debian rootfs is this here
http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/

The Mailing List for the Developers can be found here !
http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gt ... hread.html

The Online Shop for Buying the new powerfull Open Source Linux Smartphone is this one
http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04

Some videos of the Powerfull Open Source Linux Smartphone with the new Availble Motherboard.

Booting Linux on the new Linux Opensource Smartphone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KnJc7eImQ4

GTA04/Debian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXlN9WentY

QT Linux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgZzxmHzWtg

Remeber that the powerfull Open Source Smartphone Motherboard can be used also to build and run a hybrid 4G Tablet Smartphone or a 4G Ultrabook Smartphone.

Please Support and Spread this News

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#13 Post by Aitch »

EUR666.66 for one board!!! That must be an error, surely?
http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04

Aitch :)

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#14 Post by ARAN »

This Price is for the Delevering/Shipment of the Board in a few Days from the Stock.

You can have the board also for the Price of 449 Euro instead the 666.66 Euro
but you have to wait till about April 2012 then.
http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php? ... oup%20Tour

A Open Source and Open Hardware Smartphone that you can use for nearly everything what you can Imagine has its Price !

Beside this not everybody want the Smartphone becouse they want to build a Tablet or something else with the Mainboard like for example bigger LCD Screen, Keyboard and such stuff.

The Whole Smartphone itself with all parts is here
http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php? ... 20Complete

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Re: armel development

#15 Post by Eldon »

n810 wrote:i got a nokia n810 and man is this thing powerful. my only problem is that the maemo operating system is total junk. the debian based system is far too large and this makes the computer run too slow. I think that there is a big future for puppy, if somebody cares to develop the software, in the arm, mips, and risc processors. Basically these are the processors that run the telephone and nokia internet tablet devices. I wish to god that somebody would develop a puppy for the nokia n810 so that i could get rid of the ridiculous maemo system on here.

the debian on it works, but it is for a system with 5 times more memory and a processor that's twice as fast as the arm that's on there now. these little computers are the future and somebody should recognize this at puppy. if debian can develop this why can't puppy?
Dude!
I know this is 3 years old, but I have a N800(same thing, but without GPS/keyboard) and the Maemo OS is actually pretty bad ass if you take some time to customize it. You have to update the firmware to get the processor to go up from 330Mhz to the 400 it's capable of. That's the biggest reason it's slow.

They have a community update for Diablo, that fixes some bugs and enhances responsiveness. Telescope should be installed to make it respond faster when switching windows. ASUI lets you control BT, wifi, and processor speed.

I really think it rocks for having paid only $50 for it on ebay.

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#16 Post by Lobster »

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppiPlan
We only have little legs. We are coming to arm. :wink:
Puppy Raspup 8.2Final 8)
Puppy Links Page http://www.smokey01.com/bruceb/puppy.html :D

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#17 Post by sickgut »

o....m....g....

the standard debian image for the rasp is so shockingly inefficient and bloated with such little functionality that im just speechless....

1.7gb of pure crud, with only like 6 or so functional apps.
How on earth can you actually set out to do this? its not as tho there are any appreciable console tools either... there is nothing, also there wasnt even xterm installed and so the xinit command didnt work as that looks for xterm.

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#18 Post by darkcity »

how about the Raspbian version, any better? 8)

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#19 Post by linux28 »

new? :?:

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Porting Puppy to ARM MediaTek Watch Phones

#20 Post by ARAN »

Hi i am in the Proccess of Porting Puppy Linux to my
ARM MediaTek Computer Watch Phone as i am tired of android and its limitation.

I just got recently the Linux Kernel Sources for my Computer Watch Phone and could successfull rebuild the Kernel.

I also downloaded with fossil the needed Puppy Linux sources to create a armel corsscompile Version of Puppy Linux on a x86 Host Mashine with the ubuntu precise packages.

My Question is first of all if the new Kernel that i just compiled need some specific Config Settings for Puppy Linux to run successful and if yes which ones so i can check? I remember some discussion about this kernel config setting related to loading sfs files and such stuff.

Beside this i guess it should be no Problem to build puppy linux with a Kernel Binary Image i guess? Any Tips where to place/replace new vs old one Kernel Binary Images and what the needed step by step instruction with woof are?

If i have success with the compile and run of puppy linux on my armel computer watch phone the next thing i plan and want to do is porting ubuntu touch as user interface to puppy linux woof if possible.

Looking forward to your Replys.
Greetings ARAN

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