16 May 2006 (Tue)
00:22:45
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Life
wookey, BOF on embedded Debian.
scratchbox 2, crossbuild.
- scratchbox2 is large
- crosstools: we currently lack standard set of cross compilers in Debian,
some maintained in emdebian.org. Apparently, cross tools which run on reasonable architectures will go into mainstream.
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slind, uses dpkg-cross. postinst is ran natively over NFS, to workaround some postinst problems.
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slind/ directory in source overriding debian/ directory in source for customization.
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ARM EABI transition, there is a separate BOF. New arm architecture is required.
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Extramadura meeting result: we will upload crosstools in Debian main.
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How to start working on embedded Debian.
Getting an evaluation board from a vendor,
asking the vendor if they support linux.
Retail embedded devices tend to be undocumented and
actually harder to work with.
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Official answers from semiconductor companies will say
they would say no, but there are many engineers.
03:09:28
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translation BOF.
- Problems with rosetta. Multiple packages are translated.
Web-based tools open to users, but doing QA over such
openness is one problem.
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Concern about rosetta is that it's non-free.
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Flow for translation: translation, review, discussion.
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The same strings sometimes need to be translated
differently depending on context.
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DDTP has been broken for a while.
There's something new which should now work.
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We probably really need a New Translator Process.
05:40:07
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My wlan is dying quite often.
It's a prism2 card.
There seems to be some kind of error condition, and once it enters that condition, the number of error packets will just increase.
hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync: CTLX[3] error: state(Request failed)
prism2sta_commsqual_defer: error fetching commsqual
skb_p80211_to_ether: OTHER frame too large (2940 > 1500)
skb_p80211_to_ether: OTHER frame too large (2940 > 1500)
skb_p80211_to_ether: OTHER frame too large (2940 > 1500)
skb_p80211_to_ether: OTHER frame too large (2940 > 1500)