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Five years with OpenEmbedded

It is hard to believe but I started using OpenEmbedded 5 years ago…

2004-02-11 — bought Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 2004-03-20 — my first submission to OE (SubApplet 1.0.7) 2004-05-08 — my first push to OpenEmbedded repository 2005-04-05 — got first donation due to my OE/OZ work — Zaurus C760 2005-06-28 — joined OPIE developers team to push OE patches [...]

My palmtops story

All started years ago — I was living in Wrocław then. Each Thursday groups of friends met in pub. About half of them used PalmOS powered palmtops. Due to them I started thinking about buying palmtop for myself.

Palm M105

About year later I bought my first PDA: Palm M105. It had monochrome screen (16 shades of [...]

Goodbye handhelds.org

I read thread about opie trademark on opie@handhelds.org ML, read posts about GPE situation months ago and now and decided that handhelds.org is not my community.

OPIE was my favorite environment since I bought Zaurus SL-5500 over 3 years ago. I was one of persons which added OPIE recipes into OpenEmbedded and spent lot of time [...]

OpenZaurus time is over - long live Ångström

Some time ago new kernel hacker joined team of people working on 2.6 kernel for Zaurus machines — Thomas Kunze gave us SD/MMC driver for collie and works on other subsystems to get this machine working. As result collie got added into list of Ångström supported devices and test images were generated.

Also during last time [...]

Collie and SD/MMC support under 2.6 kernel

Few days ago Thomas Kunze wrote to openzaurus-devel list that he has working SD/MMC driver for Sharp Zaurus SL-5000/5500 (aka Collie). He provided patches and later also Ångström image + kernel so anyone can test.

I asked him for patches to current OpenEmbedded metadata and added them later so now anyone can build 2.6.20 kernel for [...]

Zaurus line officially ended

Yesterday I got official information that Sharp ended Zaurus line — last production will be in February 2007 and then nothing — no new models, no building of older models. Many people wrote that this is bad thing, that they will miss new toys with Zaurus name…

I am not one of them. Since SL-C3000 (called [...]