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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #660 on: January 29, 2013, 11:14:25 am »
Do you use defconfig as kernel?
tangrs didn't enable CONFIG_LBDAF, so you can't mount ext4 r/w.

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #661 on: January 29, 2013, 12:30:18 pm »
That was the only thing I changed. Other than that, is there anything I need to do?
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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #662 on: January 29, 2013, 12:31:29 pm »
Nope, It should work fine by now.
Could you post the full error messages in "nspire linux questions"?

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #663 on: January 29, 2013, 07:33:27 pm »
I've just enabled CONFIG_LBDAF in the defconfig.

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #664 on: January 30, 2013, 01:22:54 am »
CONFIG_LOCALVETSION, too?

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #665 on: January 30, 2013, 05:46:31 am »
CONFIG_LOCALVETSION, too?

Oh, almost forgot that one. Yep, committed!

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #666 on: February 06, 2013, 06:56:44 pm »
So, after all of this hard work, what can you do on Linux?  You use 80% of the available RAM so you can do what with it?  Run small programs on it?

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #667 on: February 06, 2013, 09:46:49 pm »
You can run X. You can compile C code. You can even run graphical web browsers, but that's really slow. (Command line ones are faster)

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #668 on: February 06, 2013, 10:30:44 pm »
oh OK, still not very appealing to me until you make a video showing all of the cool stuff you can do on it. 

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #669 on: February 07, 2013, 01:07:00 am »
So, after all of this hard work, what can you do on Linux? 

Pretty much anything you can do normally on a desktop Linux distro.

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You use 80% of the available RAM so you can do what with it? 

You'd be surprised to know that Linux only uses about 8MB of RAM on my development build (potentially much lower without a ramdisk) which works out to be about 13% of the total available RAM on CX models (about 25% on the classic models). Nothing close to your estimate of 80%.

Of course, by today's desktop/laptop/mobile/tablet standards, the remaining 56MB wouldn't be enough to run anything. But in this case, we're talking about an embedded device running low overhead applications. In the embedded world of computing, 56MB is actually a huge amount of free memory with lots of potential. For example, I have in the past, ran a X server with Xterm, Xclock, Xeyes, Mathomatic open and plot a graph with GNUplot all at the same time with still plenty of RAM to spare.

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Run small programs on it?

Sure, if that's what you want :)

Don't forget that we're aren't a corporation or business trying to 'sell' Nspire Linux. I ported Linux to the Nspire simply because I could and it's something I can enjoy working on. I didn't and still don't think about how this could be useful at all when I develop for it. Plus, I learned a ton about kernel development on the way.

And come on, when was there ever a time when Linux being ported to a new platform wasn't cool? :P

oh OK, still not very appealing to me until you make a video showing all of the cool stuff you can do on it. 

It's totally cool if you don't find it appealing. I understand that not everyone sees things that same way as some of us do.

As developers, we generally engage more with the people who are more interested in our work but, for the heck of it, here's a few videos from the past that shows some interesting things with Linux
















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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #670 on: February 07, 2013, 10:02:40 pm »
@tangrs I find all of your responses valid, thank you for your thorough reply.  Linux on a calculator is pretty cool.
« Last Edit: February 07, 2013, 10:03:06 pm by xinthose »

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #671 on: February 08, 2013, 11:07:23 pm »
oh OK, still not very appealing to me until you make a video showing all of the cool stuff you can do on it. 

No, you can't run Crysis on a calculator. (Assuming running Crysis is what you mean by appealing)
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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #672 on: February 09, 2013, 06:22:45 am »
I can run a video of crysis....:P

I wonder how hard it would be to get a VNC client running. That would enable a lot of really cool tricks.

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #673 on: February 11, 2013, 05:41:33 pm »
I am having an issue with the new kernels. I have a working version of Linux using an initrd, an older busybox kernel, and bootloader2. (there is only one version of bootloader2, right?) I recently downloaded the two kernels and tried to boot them both with and without a USB-OTG setup and script, every atempt failed to boot past the bootloader screen. I anyone wants to see the boot script I can post it. I would apreciate any help with this.

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« Last Edit: February 12, 2013, 05:34:01 pm by qubicprograms »
I support this kind of hacking: making things do things that those things weren't originally meant to do.

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #674 on: February 12, 2013, 12:45:20 am »
Can you post your bootscript and make sure you have the latest kernel?