openmoko-devel Digest, Vol 127, Issue 1

Thu Jul 12 14:49:50 CEST 2007

I know this has nothing to do with this but I desperately looking for
answers! I ordered a Neo Base on Sunday and still have yet to receive
conformation for my order! Is there a back up or a problem with my order? i
really want to get going with the neo and OpenMoko! Please Help

Derick Jones

On 7/12/07, openmoko-devel-request at lists.openmoko.org <
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>   1. Re: How do I include a package in the image? (Gergely Kis)
>   2. Re: third party navigation solution (Alf Stockton)
>   3. Re: How do I locally patch OpenMokoMake build process?
>      (Jeremiah Flerchinger)
>   4. Re: How do I include a package in the image?
>      (Jeremiah Flerchinger)
>   5. Shipping costs (Fred Leeflang)
>   6. info on the SMedia 3362 (Chuck Tuffli)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Gergely Kis" <openmoko at kisgergely.com>
> To: "openmoko-devel at lists.openmoko.org" <openmoko-devel at lists.openmoko.org
> >
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:46:52 +0200
> Subject: Re: How do I include a package in the image?
> Hi,
>
> Could you share your .bb file and your patches so we can also give it a
> try?
>
> Best Regards,
> Gergely
>
>
> On 7/6/07, John Seghers <jseghers at cequint.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm attempting to include a package containing phoneme-feature into an
> > openmoko build.
> >
> > I've successfully (I think) built the package with the OpenEmbedded arm
> > cross-compiling toolchain and have the .ipk package.  I cannot for the
> life
> > of me find the way to get that package included into the image.
> >
> >
> >
> > One assumption I should state first is: /home/moko/build/tmp/rootfs/….
> > should contain the files from the package if it is installed in the
> image.
> > Is this correct?
> >
> >
> >
> > I've tried setting the documented IPKG_INSTALL in my bitbake recipe for
> > phoneme. I've tried setting PACKAGE_INSTALL.
> >
> > I've tried adding the package name to the PACKAGE_INSTALL in
> > openembedded/packages/images/openmoko-image.bb
> >
> >
> >
> > Can someone please shed some light on this?
> >
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alf Stockton <alf at stockton.co.za>
> To: openmoko-devel at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:03:45 +0200
> Subject: Re: third party navigation solution
> Patrick Beck <beck-patrick at web.de> said:-
>  >
>  >  > >From my side, I would even spend some menpower to make this thing
>  > running on the upcoming OpenMoko based Neo. But I'm no developer. I'm a
>  > teacher for economics and information technology. I can talk to make
> the
>  > guys from Navigon to build there Navigation programm to this platform,
>  > can visit them, can make testings an QM and reports to the community.
>  > But I need the interest of the community and the support and the
> willing
>  > of the developers to have such an application on Neo.
>  >  > > And I need the specs to give them. A Neo-device for the developers
>  > would be very helpful, too, I think. Maybe this task could also do
>  > someone else, who is more on the technical side, but I would do it
>  > anyway because I'm so amazed of the idea.
>  > end quote.
>
> as a programmer I offer my assistance as well.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alf Stockton            www.stockton.co.za
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>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeremiah Flerchinger <jeremiah.flerchinger at gmail.com>
> To: John Seghers <jseghers at cequint.com>
> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:07:24 -0700
> Subject: Re: How do I locally patch OpenMokoMake build process?
> John Seghers wrote:
>
> One thing that looks wrong in your commands is that your paths
> "*/trunk/*<rest of path>..."
> are based at root rather than at /home/moko/openmoko...
>
> Try
> "quilt add trunk/<rest of path>...."
>
> If that isn't the issue, but rather a typo in your email, look at
> patches/input_test.patch.
>
> Yes that was a typo.  Using the wrong path gives a patch file where
> everything is added (I tried out of curiosity).
>
> One other thing... after creating the patch, run
> make update
>
> before
>
> make openmoko-devel-image
>
>
> Thanks John, I forgot to actually patch with "make update".
>
> The patch is then applied (which I can verify by checking the file in
> "openmoko/trunk/<rest of path>") but it makes no difference to the xml file
> created in rootfs/usr/share/.  I didn't verify if behavior of the executable
> in rootfs/usr/bin/ changed yet.  It was a clean build.
>
> Are these files not used in making the image then?  What's the point of
> them being there?  Do I need to go back and patch a different set of files
> instead so the rootfs is made as desired?
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeremiah Flerchinger <jeremiah.flerchinger at gmail.com>
> To: John Seghers <jseghers at cequint.com>
> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:44:15 -0700
> Subject: Re: How do I include a package in the image?
> John Seghers wrote:
>
>  I'm attempting to include a package containing phoneme-feature into an
> openmoko build.
>
> I've successfully (I think) built the package with the OpenEmbedded arm
> cross-compiling toolchain and have the .ipk package.  I cannot for the life
> of me find the way to get that package included into the image.
>
>
>
> One assumption I should state first is: /home/moko/build/tmp/rootfs/….
> should contain the files from the package if it is installed in the image.
> Is this correct?
>
>
>
> I've tried setting the documented IPKG_INSTALL in my bitbake recipe for
> phoneme. I've tried setting PACKAGE_INSTALL.
>
> I've tried adding the package name to the PACKAGE_INSTALL in
> openembedded/packages/images/openmoko-image.bb
>
>
>
> Can someone please shed some light on this?
>
>
>
> - John
>
>
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>
> Here's except I found at http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/FirstProjectwhich may relate.  I'm currently trying to get through some of their
> documentation myself.
>
>  Adding Packages to an Image
>
> This I found to be very obscure! There seems to be a peer relationship of
> the *task-bootstrap.bb* and *bootstrap-image.bb*. *bootstrap-image.bb*calls down to
> *task-bootstrap.bb* to get the recipies of the base system built. You
> would think that all you would have to do to add another package later is to
> add it to BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS? Not so!
>
> Adding the package name to BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS merely causes it to be
> built and packaged (.ipk), but it won't get added to the image! *
> bootstrap-image.bb* is a controlling recipe but it is *task-bootstrap.bb*that decides just what goes into that image. Strange, this caused me no end
> of removing the tmp directory and doing a fresh build just to add another
> package. :-(
> The solution is to rebuild the *task-bootstrap* package! When you add
> another package to BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS, merely run *bitbake -c
> rebuild task-bootstrap* and then do a *bitbake bootstrap-image*. It seems
> that *task-bootstrap* will build the collection (list) of what goes into
> the image, then *bootstrap-image**task-bootstrap* made. populates it from
> the list
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Fred Leeflang <fredl at 3dn.nl>
> To: openmoko-devel at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:15:15 +0200
> Subject: Shipping costs
> *ugh* the shipping costs to the Netherlands of the Advanced are $104.99
> Is there any way to get those shipping costs down?
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Chuck Tuffli" <chuck at tuffli.net>
> To: openmoko-devel at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:06:54 -0700
> Subject: info on the SMedia 3362
> I'm interested in the next Neo phone, especially the graphics
> processor. Are there technical specs (programmer's guide, register
> def, etc) available for this part somewhere? What tasks in terms of
> integrating the 3362 into OpenMoko are the core developers planning to
> do and what tasks could some help?
>
> ---chuck
>
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