From: Tony L. <to...@at...> - 2004-12-31 17:12:56
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* Simon Kagstrom <sim...@bt...> [041231 06:51]: > On 2004-12-31, 12:21, Jeremy Wilkins wrote: > > Whats the status of the 2.4.27 work someone was doing, is that kernel at > > the point it can be used as the recommended kernel, I believe its got a > > some of the useful patches in such as the vfat fix. Plus it will benefit > > from all the upstream fixes. > > I don't think everything works as it should yet. For instance I'm pretty sure > that the serial driver broke by my fixes, but I don't have a serial cable and > haven't tested it. Also, when building it there are sometimes strange booting > problems which seems to be linked to the size of the kernel. I'm sometimes not > able to boot with a initrd for instance (depending on the size of the > initrd). Also, I don't know how to get the Psion-specific keybindings working > by default (Fn-Space for backlight etc). As far as I remember, the kernel and initrd must fit into the first 4MB as the memory is not contiguous. So bigger initrds have never worked. > I'll upload the new patch set which includes the battery status proc-entry > when I've cleaned up my changes. Glad to hear the battery status works now! Tony |