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Efika 5200B Project
Port CRUX PPC

in category Operating Systems
proposed by acrux on 19th October 2006 (accepted on 20th October 2006)

Project Summary
CruxPPC is a port for the PowerPC platform of Crux. It\'s a lightweight, source based GNU/Linux distribution, whos primary focus is \"keep it simple\".
CRUX PPC WebSite

The EFIKA board would be a perfect target for the embedded solution based on CRUX PPC and PowerPC processor

Project Blog Entries

  EFIKA 2.6.24.x kernel patchset
posted by acrux on 28th February 2008

EFIKA (with no firmware updated) 2.6.24.x kernel patchset is here available for not CRUX PPC users too:

http://www.ewb.it/~acrux/linux-2.6.24.2-Efika.patch

  Matchbox on EFIKA. - 2.6.24.x kernel patchset
posted by acrux on 13th February 2008

We've just uploaded the ports for the Matchbox environment, and it works great on the EFIKA (better if you have a touchscreen attached to the Efika, of course!).

You can obtain information about installing matchbox (and a nice screenshot) on this page: http://www.crux.it/cruxppc/wiki/MatchboxEfika.

New 2.6.24.x kernel patchset is already available too

  crux-ppc-2.4pre10-32bit
posted by acrux on 19th January 2008

prepaired a new iso.

http://www.ewb.it/~acrux/crux-ppc-2.4pre10-32bit.iso (325920768)
http://www.ewb.it/~acrux/crux-ppc-2.4pre10-32bit.iso.md5 (71)

it is a generic pmac32, efika and pegasos2 (radeonfb enabled and without DTS fw patch) bootkernel (2.6.23.14)


some notes:

1) handbook updated
2) setup fixed
3) xorg-server-1.4.0.90 wrapper doesn't find videocards
on PCI bus (PCI domain broken on powerpc arch) then if
needed you must download and upgrade with this one[1]
4) packages updated to 17/01/2008


[1]http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=196

  new patchset
posted by acrux on 10th November 2007

new patchset (against 2.6.23.x) available under request only.
minor issue with DTS firmware patch should be investigated.

  Kiosk powered by CRUX PPC on EFIKA
posted by acrux on 26th September 2007

Information kiosk on EFIKA with our old faithful 3M Microtouch 12" powered by CRUXPPC-2.4pre1 (kernel-2.6.22.6+xorg-7.3+xfce-4.4.1+firefox-2.0.0.7).



Is available an home-made 3M Microtouch patched driver against 2.6.22.x too.






greetz,
The Crux PPC Team
http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/

  EFIKA @ Pianeta Amiga 2007
posted by acrux on 22nd August 2007

We'll be at Pianeta Amiga 2007 with our stable CRUX PPC 2.2 and CRUX PPC 2.4pre1.

Experimental SoC's pendrive (or CFII or Microdrive) solution preview on EFIKA.
Genesi EFIKA, obviously CRUX PPC powered, 'll be available.

  Efika “ready to use” archive
posted by acrux on 25th June 2007

A small test archive of a a subset of the core CRUX PPC ports has been prepeared by The CRUX PPC Team. The download is only 46Mb and the disk space required to untar the whole system is 190Mb.

The archive is ready to be untarred on an USB Pendrive and booted/used from there on the EFIKA.

We hope to release soon an improved and fine-tuned Efika archive; we will probably remove some terminfo and gconv files and some packages to reduce disk footprint, and will provide fine-tuned kernel with new patches along with a very simple dialog based network package fetcher and installer.

Please see the “Contributed ISOs and Images” on the Download page for download links and infos.

   EFIKA patches collection for 2.6.21.1
posted by acrux on 13th May 2007

a bit ugly but it seems to work fine..
we'll release asap this new patches collection.

  next CRUX PPC 2.2.0.2 stable info
posted by acrux on 29th March 2007

we'll release soon our stable CRUX PPC 2.2 with a bumped gcc to 4.0.4 then we'll have a rock solid toolchain. We are already working on CRUX PPC 2.3 toolchain.

There'll be the 3th generation of Ilenia our powerfull ports maintainence tool.

We hope to realise a new and updated EFIKA patches collection too (kernel 2.6.21).

  EFIKA's flavours!
posted by acrux on 27th March 2007

We are testing some solution to realise a one time server using EFIKA SoC, we'll do different "flavours" for different needs e.g. tftp,httpd,thinclient,octave terminal,shell,etc..
To make a "flavour" we have choose to release a couple of files, an high optimized and patched kernel image and a squashfs with only useful appz compiled with cpu optimized cflags.

We are, also, looking for one radeon 9250 and one volari v3 to test directfb support.

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