December 18th, 2006
During weekend I was working on getting self hosted build of OpenEmbedded.
I built Ångström-2007.1 for progear and chrooted into resulting image. Then installed some packages, copied OE metadata, archives for SRC_URI and did bitbake nano build.
Some packages was needed to be installed — I added them into new task named task-self-hosting which should contain everything [...]
December 16th, 2006
Today I checked how to flash BIOS on Progear HX1050 webpad. Basically there are two ways:
using psplash.exe under DOS
using fpFlashBIOS under GNU/Linux
I do not know does they were provided with default installations.
Flashing under GNU/Linux (Debian ‘testing’ in my case) is simple:
sync
./fpFlashBIOS -w:pb_10404.rom
Application will write some flash block (and verify). Then reboot to check does everything [...]
November 10th, 2006
Yesterday I got Progear 1050HX+ webpad from one of OpenZaurus users. It has Transmeta Crusoe CPU (TM3200/400MHz), 2.5″ harddisk inside, Orinoco WiFi card (so no WPA for me) and the best part: 1024×768 touchscreen panel. After booting I got very stripped installation of MS Windows 98SE and played a bit. Due to fact that it [...]
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