After this bad joke we can come to some real infos. Harald is working on the kernel full steam ahead. Good progress so far. Sometimes faster sometimes slower.

From my side I concentraded on the OE side so far. Booting into a fso-image is working now. With every new hardware feature the kernel gets support for we can start to integrate it into FSO. GPS and BT are good candidates as they are just attached to UARTs and the enabling/disabling via GPIOs is already in the kernel.

A 'cat /dev/ttySAC2' already gives out some NMEA stancas. SiRF III binary protocol has to wait a bit longer. Next week I'll have some fun with making use of the GPS in frameword. Stay tuned.

The great guys from the OLPC Deutschland e.V. long-term borrowed up to 70 XO laptops for people which have interesting projects with them.

I asked for one to work on OpenEmbedded integration for it. This divides into two parts:

1. Machine support. This one should not be to hard as it is a x86 device and the first rootfs it ever booted in the AMD labs was build with OE. :) Still it will help me to understand the deeper internals from OpenEmbedded better.

2. Writing recipes for the sugar applications and libraries. Having recipes for them in the OE metadata will make it easy for other distros using OE as their buildsystem to use them and put them in their feeds.

I will be busy with EZX the next two weeks. I plan to work on this afterwards.