News of the OpenEZX project
.com and .net domains for OpenEZX
Jan Prunk (yang) has kindly reserved www.openezx.com and www.openezx.net for us.
For now these new addresses point to www.openezx.org.
Thanks to Jan.
New Developer to work on ROKR E6 and Motorola Q CDMA
As we are a small team with a core team of only three people we sometimes suffer
from the fact that we only have a limited amount of time we can offer our hobby
project.
Getting more people involved is often a good way to spread the load. So we are
happy to announce that two new developer have joined the project.
GM Zhuo is working on his ROKR E6 for a long time already. He is now working on
getting the E6 in line with the support we have on the other phones and also
write new driver like the pcap-rtc.
Timothy Meade is working on the Motorola Q. This is the first non-EZX device we
have support for. Normally delivered with Windows Mobile it is pretty similar
from the hardware platform, especially using the PCAP2 chip.
Welcome on board guys.
Thanks to the work of Bart Visscher and Antonio Ospite we now have a working setup
for the A910 camera. The MT9M111 CMOS sensor driver was already in mainline and
just needed a small fix to work correctly for us. Here is a picture to
show the raw image quality.
Some versions of the A780 are also using the same CMOS sensor. Sadly we only get
images with wrong colors out of it. Either the sensor driver still has a bug or
we need a special setup for the A780 for it. Stay tuned, we will find it out.
Topgit for kernel patches
After a long time usage of quilt for our kernel patches, a short period of trying
out stgit and guilt we finally have found something that matches our workflow
and helps us to keep in sync with upstream in an easy way. Our tree is now topgit enabled. As topgit is only a
small layer over git people are still able to use our git tree without topgit.
Only if you like to start hacking on it we strongly suggest it. People just like
to compile the kernel itself need to checkout the ezx/current from our
git repo.
Currently we are based on 2.6.28-rc2 and following closely.
The OpenEZX team is pleased to announce the 0.2.0 release
of boot_usb.
It gained support for transfering an initrd, setting the cmdline and setting the
machine ID. RAZR2 V8 detection support was also added.
A910 donation for hacking
Today I recieved an A910.
Peter Malte Mack was kind enough to send us one. A big thank you from the
OpenEZX team for this.
The most interesting about this device is the fact that ist is the only EZX with
a wifi chip build in. We still need to find out which chip and if we can perhaps
support it, but atleast we have the hardware now to do this.
Bleeding Edge Images for EZX devices
For a long time already the Angstrom distribution builds
kernels and images for our EZX devices. We like to say thank you for this
service.
If people like to try out some bleeding edge images they should give the
autobuild
images a try.
Based on this images we also like to provide a well tested snapshot at some
point in the future. (Promissed schedules always fail, so no date. :))
OpenEZX is now based on linux-2.6.21. More infos about
ezx11
in the ChangeLog.
Note
Only a780 and e680 kernels offer a useful set of functionalities, other
phones are at a very early stage, please see the
Project Status page on
our wiki.
The recommended toolchain to crosscompile the images is the one from
OpenEmbedded, see
the wiki for further
details.
Here you can find some binary builds to have a quick test on your phone.
Please report your experience :)
And you can check the integrity of the files using md5sums
.
ROKR E6 first kernel boot
Paulo Marques joined our team.
He is a lucky ROKR E6 owner and already was able to boot a
2.6.21 vanilla kernel plus only one EZX patch.
This brings me to another topic. We have a
2.6.21
kernel branch for some time now. This will be the base for our next ezx
release. Thanks goes to wyrm and ao2.
Better touchscreen handling and more. More infos about ezx10
in the
the ChangeLog.
ezx9 patchset small bugfix release
The OpenEZX team proudly announces the release of the ezx9
patchset. No new features just bugfixes. For more details have a look at
the ChangeLog.
The OpenEZX team proudly announces the release of the ezx8
patchset.
This release is somekind of milestone as we fixed the mux_cli driver to keep the
phone alive. This means we can start to try some real telephony stuff in the
next weeks. For more details please refer the
announce mail.
boot_usb release with support for ROKR E2
We made our first boot_usb release. Fetch boot_usb-0.1.0,
test and report if it breaks or works for other phones then A780, E680 and ROKR
E2. I guess it should even work for A1200, but like to see a proof for it. We
also were able to boot a 2.4 kernel compiled for E680 on a ROKR E2.
UPDATE: boot_usb-0.1.0 was successfully tested with an A1200.
To give new people a better overview, a status page was started.
After a period of silence we are happy to annouce the release of ezx7. It fetches
together all the patches flying around. Still no stable release and a lot of
work is to be done before we have a full free-software stack. For more
information please read the announcement on the maillinglist.
The OpenEZX project now has three more models of Motorola Linux phones for
development: One A1200 (thanks to a donation from Wolfgang Spraul!), and a ROKR
E2 and A732 which Harald bought during his recent Shanghai trip.
As of now, we don't support any of those three phones. Expect news on this
during the upcoming weeks...
As you can see, we've tweaked the website a bit. This is not a complete
redesign, mostly small enhancements, cleanup and typo fixing.
If you find some typos, broken links or even want to help to get this site
better, don't hesitant to drop me a mail.
We recieved 15 proposals from 10 people. That is a lot more we expected.
First of all we would like to say thank you to everybody participated at this contest.
The winner is
David McKelvie. Congratulations.
Based on this logo we will adjust website and wiki and start an artwork page.
Stay tuned.
The project needs a logo.
The OpenEZX project makes progress every day. But one one important item is still
missing. A project logo.
So if you have the necessary skills please join our Logo Contest.
2.6.15.6 kernel port to EZX platform
The OpenEZX 2.6.x kernel makes significant progress. A kernel based on 2.6.15.6
has successfully been booted on A780 and E680 devices, including ports of the
drivers for many hardware features, although a lot is still missing. More details can be found at this blog entry in Haralds blog.
planet.openezx.org launched
The new RSS feed aggregator planet.openezx.org has just been launched as a collection
of OpenEZX related weblogs. If you know of some blog feeds that match this subject and we might want to add, please let us know!
The project has now released an USB boot loader
application. This application can be used to download arbitrary custom
code from a host PC into the phone (via USB) and then have the phone execute
this code.
This is particularly useful for kernel development, since you can boot and test
kernels without having to actually touch the flash of the phone.
OpenEZX project wiki started
The OpenEZX Wiki has just been launched as a collaborative effort to collect information on the EZX platform.
OpenEZX project homepage started
The OpenEZX project proudly
announces their new project homepage.
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