Re: [cobalt-developers] Re: Qube Sausalito Sources

[Anders <andersb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Will DeHaan wrote: (in reply to Noah Silva)

> Qube 3 and the RaQ 550 use the newer, now public software
> architecture "sausalito".

Of course, they use rather different versions of it...
(the platform that is, not counting all the modules)

And only the old version has made it to the public yet.
(the one that is on the Qube 3, that is. Most of it)

> RaQ XTR is a hyrbid of both architectures.

Which means it runs a third, crippled, variant of Sausalito...
(and some skins on the old interface to make it look the same)

Added to the "menlo" DEV build, that makes 4 variants in all.
Two working ones, and two rather broken versions (XTR and DEV).

>> In case you are interested, I have the following plans:
>> a.) upgrade the OS my Qube1!
>> b.) remove sun branding on the OSS sausalito release
>>     so I can distribute it.
>> c.) get the OSS sausalito menlo release building on a qube3. (baby steps).
>> d.) Get the menlo release working on debian, redhat.
> 
> Many people are interested in this.  Co-ordinate efforts on the
> cobalt-developers mailing list to save yourself work.

Until the remaining secret portions of the "menlo" cce drivers,
or the alpine version of sausalito, escapes the gravity of Sun;
your best bet is to go with the mendo build and the Qube 3 OS ?

The basic parts of it already works on vanilla RedHat 7.2/7.3,
assuming you use the modules from the Qube 3 RPMS and not the
new "mendo" ones that unfortunately went into the OSS tarball...

Red Hat Linux is a lot easier than porting the
software over to the Debian Linux distribution?
Changing all the various RPMS to DEBS, etc. etc.

But I would feel kinda cramped in a original Qube.
I mean: 150 MHz MIPS, 32 MB RAM, 6.4 GB HDD? Ouch!
Better off putting a new board in the old shell...

--anders

PS:  Will is working on fixing the CQ3-OSS issues*,
     I gather they will be in the next release. 1.3 ?
     (*issues = wrong modules and buggy copyright)