Talk:Community Updates
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Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.
Watch these links:
- Git logs: kernel/stable, kernel/stable-tracking, Qtopia/master, Openmoko's OpenEmbedded, uboot/stable, Qi/master
- Mailing lists: hardware, devel, community, kernel, support
How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html
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Distributions
FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5. With the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers, Zhone is going to be faded out. Further framework milestone releases will ship in two forms:
- fso-console-image: An FSO-compliant image featuring no user interface manager.
- fso-illume-image: An FSO-compliant image featuring the X-Window system with the Enlightenment-based Illume window manager.
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 ?)
What is coming in the future:
- Improve WLAN latency: On the same wireless network on which the Neo has an average ping of 70+ms, with large excursions, my laptop gets an average of 1.7ms and a maximum of about 5-6ms.
- The replacement of the Atheros SDIO stack underneath the WLAN driver with the Linux SDIO stack is planned but not scheduled.
- Jonas Bonn is working on Variable Clock Frequency and Power Saving.
- A /sys interface to disable the touchscreen
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.
