CACkO Zaurus Qtopia ROM 1.20 1438050304 (SL-C7x0) "Daniela"
Fri Mar 5 14:39:32 MSK 2004

(c) Cacko Team (http://www.cacko.biz), 2003-2004

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IMPORTANT: This ROM requries a flash partition at least 26 MBytes in size!
Make sure to repartition your internal flash before updating ROM!

Installation:

1. Extract the 3 files - initrd.bin tools.tar updater.sh - to the root of your CF or SD/MMC card. 
2. Make sure that Zaurus isn't plugged into AC power. 
3. Remove battery for at least 5 seconds. 
4. Replace battery (replace battery cover, lock cover), plug in AC power. 
5. Press and hold the "OK" button on the keyboard. 
6. Turn the power on, you should see the Japanese service menu. 
7. Now Plug in the Power Cord. (You will get an error if it isn't plugged in!) 
8. Select option 4 (flash/update).
9. You then have four options (1. USB, 2. CF, 3. SD, 4. Back) 
10. Choose either option 2 or 3, depending on which media you put the files on. 

11. Select "5 Flash repartition", enter at least 26 when prompted for root partition size.
12. Flash will be repartioned and Zaurus will reboot.

13. Repeate steps 2-10 again and wait for the menu start menu.
13. Now select "1 Install new ROM" and wait - Zaurus will reboot.

Release Notes:

Kernel:

- PXA250 Cache workaround disabled, effectivly doubling the speed of SL-C700 device
- Fast context switch extention is enabled
- Touch Screen pressure read added

Do "echo 1 > /proc/tspressure" to enable

- LCD is bufferable enabling faster console
- Enable CPU frequency change:

Default frequency is used at boot time. Use provided applet to change frequency.
Current CPU/Memory and Bus speeds are displayed in Sysinfo application

- Enable more accurate display of battery chanrge percentage. Still not perfect but much better than on stock kernel.
- Enabled FastFPE math emulation
- Disabled CONFIG_FS_SYNC option to greatly improve performance writing to SD/CF cards
- Added patch to (possibly) fix IRDA GPRS connection issue with some Ericsson phones - thanks to Alex Gromov

Doing ...

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/max_tx_window 
echo 1000 > /proc/sys/net/irda/min_tx_turn_time 

... should make connection to the phone reliable

- Assigned Ctrl and Alt to the two Japanees keys left to Space key

Note that preemptive patch IS NOT enabled in this kernel due to potential compatibility issues
with existing kernel modules and applications.

Bluetooth:

- Latest bluetooth drivers and utilities added, including high speed drivers for Ambicom, Pretec and Anycom CF cards
- Updated bluetooth drivers to only load upon CF card insertion

Wireless:

- Latest orinoco/spectrum wireles drivers with monitoring patch added
- HostAP drivers provided as a separate package

ROM:

- Fixed missing card monitor icons 
- Samba is started on demand, added missing samba config file
- Opera updated to version 7.30
- Calculator replaced with free version of Neocal
- Embeddedconnsole replaced with QConsole
- Updated ncurses, menu, panel libraries
- Updated sysinfo
- Improved general performance by using cramfs instead of cloop
- Italic fonts were removed from ROM and packages into a separate ipk.

- Added option to boot into a "true" Linux console at runlevel 2:

When "Wait..." message appears during boot, click "/," button and select "C".
You can switch between tty1-tty6 using Alt + Arrow keys or typing chvt [1..6]
To return to Qtopia, type "init 5" as root