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* Git logs: [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=log;h=stable kernel/stable], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=log;h=stable-tracking kernel/stable-tracking], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qtopia.git;a=log;h=master Qtopia/master], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=openmoko.git;a=summary Openmoko's OpenEmbedded], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=log;h=stable uboot/stable], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=log Qi/master]
 
* Git logs: [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=log;h=stable kernel/stable], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=log;h=stable-tracking kernel/stable-tracking], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qtopia.git;a=log;h=master Qtopia/master], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=openmoko.git;a=summary Openmoko's OpenEmbedded], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=log;h=stable uboot/stable], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=log Qi/master]
* Mailing lists: [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528196 hardware], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528183 devel], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f1954 community], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f681789 kernel], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528183 support]
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* Mailing lists: [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528196 hardware], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528183 devel], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f1954 community], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f681789 kernel], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528183 support],[http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f832940 SHR devel],
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[http://lists.projects.openmoko.org/pipermail/fdom-development/ FDOM devel]
  
 
How are newsletters organized elsewhere:
 
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Revision as of 11:14, 12 November 2008

Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.

Watch these links:

FDOM devel

How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html

/Archive 1

Contents

Distributions

FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli or the SHR phone stack, the milestone releases three FSO-compliant images:

  1. fso-console-image: minimal system with frameworkd, no user interface manager.
  2. fso-illume-image: everything in console-image plus X-Window, plus Enlightenment plus Illume window manager.
  3. fso-image: everything in illume-image plus Zhone. Can be used for phone calls. Like previous milestones. But Zhone is going to be faded out.

Joachim announced that the preferred Debian installer script in now the one in the git. The old URL does redirect to it. Thanks mostly to Luca “Gismo” Capello’s great work, recent improvements include (1) The use of the general auto-login script “nodm” instead of zhone-session. Session configuration can now be done by modifying /root/.xsession. (2) Device independent frameworkd and accompanying configuration packages. If apt-get upgrade breaks your FreeRunner, try to run apt-get install fso-config-gta02. (3) openmoko-panel-plugin installed by default (running in trayer), to provide keyboard toggle and device control. (4) The use of the packaged kernel instead of wget/tar. To get this going, run apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02

SHR is closing in on the first milestone release. Testers are needed. Install SHR and join the Internet Relay Chat on #openmoko-cdevel on FreeNode.

Applications

Numptyphysics this great physics drawing game is reborn! Game can be played landscaped, without keyboard and it uses same datafiles than any other numptyphysics-port. (http://www.opkg.org/package_3.html) upstream news: newer physics engine (Box2d v2.0.1 http://www.box2d.org), scalable window with commandline parameters (so every platfrom will use same datafiles), faster drawing, more levels, action replays (https://garage.maemo.org/scm/?group_id=638) port news: onSceenKeyboard (control-panel), action replays removed (doesn't yet work correct with freerunner), NextLevel-dialog-overlay is non-draggable (so clicking it is easier) ( http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/rantalai/freerunner/numptyphysics/ )

Signal Applications To Any (Audio) Network, or, ehm, SATAN, was born... This is a tracker to create simple music, or just jam on the train, bus or café.

Debian users rejoice: openmoko-panel-plugin reaches 0.5. Show and modify you the state of the hardware in you FreeRunner(i.e. gsm, gps ...) with any gtk based windowmanager (i.e. xfce). (thread, download)

Centerim, a terminal-based instant messager, ported on the freerunner (package, port page)

Flashing the Neo GSM modem

This is a Wiki that explains how to upgrade the GSM modem firmware of the Neo.

Hardware

And I thought that we were waiting on Sean to give mechanical legs to the Neo. I was so literally wrong !

System

Joerg and other OM hardware engineers are experimenting hardware fixes to the GSM-noise buzz issue. This may make it on the A7 hardware revision.

The kernel guys are working to switch from the stable to the stable-tracking branch. A newer 2.6.28 kernel should improve resume/suspend. And staying closer to upstream allows to spot problems early and one at a time, while branching every X months implies a great effort to jump the gap.

  • NAND/ECC kernel issues are supposedly solved by this patch.
  • Warnings from WLAN driver about "warn_on_slowpath" are gone.
  • Page flipping support added to glamo (seem to be a framebuffer feature, necessary for Android).
  • Glamo GPIO is still not working on resume, leading to WSOD.
  • There is still breakage on accels communication (not sure what this means. Maybe accelerometers hang up ?)
  • Graeme (announced that Xorg 7.4 now completely autodetects hardware on GTA02 with the Framebuffer driver). (Hacker culture factoid: did you know that as a software project X is older and about as large as the kernel with a penguin on it, but has an order of magnitude less contributors to it ?)

What is coming in the future:

Advance warning notice: expect the need for lots of userspace fixes, especially in /sys, when the kernel jumps from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.

Patches available to fix ticket 1884 (read more optimization team updates).

In the base image:

  • Erin's commits to improve network registering time.
  • openmoko-mediaplayer2: remove pulseaudio, use alsa instead.
Personal tools

Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.

Watch these links:

FDOM devel

How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html

/Archive 1

Distributions

FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli or the SHR phone stack, the milestone releases three FSO-compliant images:

  1. fso-console-image: minimal system with frameworkd, no user interface manager.
  2. fso-illume-image: everything in console-image plus X-Window, plus Enlightenment plus Illume window manager.
  3. fso-image: everything in illume-image plus Zhone. Can be used for phone calls. Like previous milestones. But Zhone is going to be faded out.

Joachim announced that the preferred Debian installer script in now the one in the git. The old URL does redirect to it. Thanks mostly to Luca “Gismo” Capello’s great work, recent improvements include (1) The use of the general auto-login script “nodm” instead of zhone-session. Session configuration can now be done by modifying /root/.xsession. (2) Device independent frameworkd and accompanying configuration packages. If apt-get upgrade breaks your FreeRunner, try to run apt-get install fso-config-gta02. (3) openmoko-panel-plugin installed by default (running in trayer), to provide keyboard toggle and device control. (4) The use of the packaged kernel instead of wget/tar. To get this going, run apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02

SHR is closing in on the first milestone release. Testers are needed. Install SHR and join the Internet Relay Chat on #openmoko-cdevel on FreeNode.

Applications

Numptyphysics this great physics drawing game is reborn! Game can be played landscaped, without keyboard and it uses same datafiles than any other numptyphysics-port. (http://www.opkg.org/package_3.html) upstream news: newer physics engine (Box2d v2.0.1 http://www.box2d.org), scalable window with commandline parameters (so every platfrom will use same datafiles), faster drawing, more levels, action replays (https://garage.maemo.org/scm/?group_id=638) port news: onSceenKeyboard (control-panel), action replays removed (doesn't yet work correct with freerunner), NextLevel-dialog-overlay is non-draggable (so clicking it is easier) ( http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/rantalai/freerunner/numptyphysics/ )

Signal Applications To Any (Audio) Network, or, ehm, SATAN, was born... This is a tracker to create simple music, or just jam on the train, bus or café.

Debian users rejoice: openmoko-panel-plugin reaches 0.5. Show and modify you the state of the hardware in you FreeRunner(i.e. gsm, gps ...) with any gtk based windowmanager (i.e. xfce). (thread, download)

Centerim, a terminal-based instant messager, ported on the freerunner (package, port page)

Flashing the Neo GSM modem

This is a Wiki that explains how to upgrade the GSM modem firmware of the Neo.

Hardware

And I thought that we were waiting on Sean to give mechanical legs to the Neo. I was so literally wrong !

System

Joerg and other OM hardware engineers are experimenting hardware fixes to the GSM-noise buzz issue. This may make it on the A7 hardware revision.

The kernel guys are working to switch from the stable to the stable-tracking branch. A newer 2.6.28 kernel should improve resume/suspend. And staying closer to upstream allows to spot problems early and one at a time, while branching every X months implies a great effort to jump the gap.

  • NAND/ECC kernel issues are supposedly solved by this patch.
  • Warnings from WLAN driver about "warn_on_slowpath" are gone.
  • Page flipping support added to glamo (seem to be a framebuffer feature, necessary for Android).
  • Glamo GPIO is still not working on resume, leading to WSOD.
  • There is still breakage on accels communication (not sure what this means. Maybe accelerometers hang up ?)
  • Graeme (announced that Xorg 7.4 now completely autodetects hardware on GTA02 with the Framebuffer driver). (Hacker culture factoid: did you know that as a software project X is older and about as large as the kernel with a penguin on it, but has an order of magnitude less contributors to it ?)

What is coming in the future:

Advance warning notice: expect the need for lots of userspace fixes, especially in /sys, when the kernel jumps from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.

Patches available to fix ticket 1884 (read more optimization team updates).

In the base image:

  • Erin's commits to improve network registering time.
  • openmoko-mediaplayer2: remove pulseaudio, use alsa instead.