September 2011 - CRUX-ARM - lists.crux-arm.nu

crux-armhf for efikamx
by acrux 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

I got it. This first (internal) release built on EfikaMX is ready. This full hardware floating point release still includes only core packages (and some opt too) and it has been started from scratch 'cause ABI incompatibility. Here the full work: http://cruxppc.org/~acrux/arm/2.7-HARD/ crux-armhf-2.7-test0-2G_image.xz (935M) - it's a full working MMC image of my machine that does use ilenia as ports manager and overlay supervisor. Thus a 'man ilenia' could help. It has the serial console and sshd enabled and a static IP (192.168.0.211). The 'root' pasword is 'cruxppc' as i've a lot of devel machines from CRUX PPC project and we use to have the same root password everywhere. The arm ports tree overlay is located 'as local' in /usr/ports/arm . arm-ports.tar.bz2 (634K) - it's an archive with ports from the arm overlay core.tar.bz2 (95M) opt.tar.bz2 (20M) pkg.list (3.0K) - they're archives with the built packages to install as chroot. crux-armhf-rootfs-2.7-test0.tar.bz2 (107M) - it's a clean system like the official way. linux-2.6.31.14.23-efikamx_20110610.tar.bz2 (63M) linux-2.6.31.14.23-efikamx.config (57K) - it's the last kernel from genesi git uImage (3.3M) bootkernel-modules.tar.bz2 (1.7M) - they'are boot kernel and modules/firmware Known issues: 1) wrong file-5.07's output (like on PowerPC) for some kind of files type. e.g. root@efikamx:/mnt/DEVEL# file mio mio: DOS-executable ( root@efikamx:/mnt/DEVEL# md5sum mio ba52d7e6f0c41a7bcaf49a216864e34a mio instead it should be.. acrux@killer:~$ file mio mio: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data acrux@killer:~$ md5sum mio ba52d7e6f0c41a7bcaf49a216864e34a mio 2) alsa-utils does build but segfault cheers, --nico -- GNU/Linux on Power Architecture CRUX PPC - http://cruxppc.org/

2 11

[ANN] CRUX-ARM 2.7 released
by Victor Martinez 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hello all, CRUX-ARM 2.7 is now released. It can be found in the dowload section [1]. The changelog can be found here [2] We did a test cicle and it seems to be working right. The only thing to take care is udev, which its update can break some devices (efikamx). All feeedback, opinions and bug reports are welcome. Best regards, CRUX-ARM team. [1] http://crux-arm.nu/Main/Download [2] http://crux-arm.nu/Documentation/Changelog --- Learning bit by bit Victor Martinez | http://lokalix.dyndns.org

2 1

Crux, Armedslack and Compiling an X driver!
by lee jones 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hello all :) I know this might be a strange thing to ask here about a different linux distro, but I was just wondering as I'm trying to make this work. I've seen that crux linux runs on the efika mx smartbook and has an x windows driver compiled for it. On the distro I'm trying to use (armedslack) there is no driver, instead the efika mx smartbook in question uses only the inbuilt (presumably into the kernel) vesa driver. What I was wondering is how the x window driver for the efika mx was created? From what I've read it uses at least one propietary part and the files xf86-video-imx and libz160. Can anyone here please tell me if I need any additional pieces and how the driver in crux was created? thanks ljones

2 1