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OpenZaurus informations
3.5.4.1 release
3.5.4.1 was first planned for Cxx00 machines because we did not have a good tested 2.6 kernel for them at the 3.5.4 release time. C7x0 was added to the release because:
- Release Manager lacks any cxx00 machine
- c7x0 is a popular machine for which we have the same kernel as for Cxx00, so why not provide a nice upgrade.
Many things were changed during the 3.5.4.1 development cycle - for example we now have pregenerated locale support, so it's easier to get GPE in other languages. Users of 3.5.4 should be able to upgrade their machines to 3.5.4.1 with ipkg update; ipkg upgrade, but this was not tested.
3.5.4.2 release
3.5.4.2 will be experimental release made for a reason: to show world our work on getting 2.6 kernel working on collie, poodle and tosa machines.
Poodle and Tosa should be usable with this release, Collie is limited due to fact that we do not have documentation needed to write SD/MMC support for this model.
Angstrom and Zaurus machines
One of the rules of Angstrom is that "a machine must have a working 2.6 kernel" - so when the first release will appear, it will support c7x0 and cxx00, so I will drop those machines from OpenZaurus - this will force users to switch but I do not want to develop for two distros at the same time. After that OZ will support only the 2.4 powered machines (collie, poodle, tosa) and it will be less maintained.
Linux 2.6 on collie/poodle/tosa
Current 2.6 kernel on tosa behave MUCH MUCH MUCH better then 2.4 ever did. I used 2.4/sharprom and 2.4/openzaurus on tosa for about a week and switched to an unofficial 3.5.4.1 image with a 2.6.17 kernel - it is totally different experience. There are still some problems to solve, but we are going into right direction.
When our kernel team decides that kernel is ready for wider testing, we will release OpenZaurus 3.5.4.2 which will be 2.6 based for tosa and poodle. Collie/2.6 images can be provided too, but they will be more experimental (no SD/MMC support kills that machine).
When tosa/2.6 and poodle/2.6 will behave good, they will probably move to Angstrom too, so OZ will be collie only like it was in first versions.
Collie future
The future of Collie is root-on-sd with Altboot - there are no plans to work on fitting a useful set of software in 12M, as it takes too much time to get something working.
