Gp2x Linux Source Release


Yay! Thankyou to DJWillis and others who helped this happen :) This source is of no real use to me (way, way, WAY out of my abilities) but I know it'll be useful to someone- and will almost certainly end up benifiting all users. Thanks again! Now GP2X is much closer to its claim of open-ness :D
 
Squidge posted on Dec 1 2005 at 06:47 AM said:
It's in Microsoft Document Imager format. I don't have a PDF writer available. Maybe someone can make a PDF of it? There's probably a viewer for these files somewhere. Don't ask me where though.
Apparently, MDI is some kind of proprietary TIFF variant. You should be able to configure Office 2003 to output regular tiff. If you did that, I could easily convert to PDF (though in that case, everyone would be able to read it already :D)
 
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The problem is that the program I used to do the comparison doesn't support saving the results to disk, but does allow printing them. I don't have PDF support installed, so can't print to a PDF file, so the only other option is "Print to MDI".

Now, none of the office applications support MDI apart from Microsoft Document Viewer :(

So I can either screengrab each page (not particularly fun) or borrow the PDF creator from work ;)
 
kalthare posted on Dec 4 2005 at 05:38 AM said:
So.. where's the USB Gadget code?

Just what I have asked DignSys and GPH :D. I should know Monday/Tuesday I hope.

PLX Tech. will also give there referance code out I belive if you ask them and point out you have binaries.
 
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Does this mean people will be able to start work on Mpeg and other unsupported codecs? Sorry for my impatience but converting movies is really getting old fast.

Thanks
 
Ninjia^ posted on Dec 4 2005 at 01:47 PM said:
Does this mean people will be able to start work on Mpeg and other unsupported codecs? Sorry for my impatience but converting movies is really getting old fast.

You would also need the mPlayer ported source for that. Work is being done to get that source :D.
 
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You'll need the mPlayer source plus the source for the second processor, and not even GPH have the source for the second processor as Magiceyes only give out binaries. Now I know ME uses open source software in there second processor, but I'm not sure whether or not it's GPL.
 
I've asked this question before and got no response...not sure if this boiled down to it being a Thickie type question.....

If the the Linux OS of the GPx2 is open source then optimising the OS would make overall emulator speeds faster?

Through better resource management, etc?
 
i dont think so. the os is dumped after the emulator is lopaded



or i could be totally wrong...
 
mmm well thats what i was trying to find out...but that can't be the case other wise the issue surrounding the 2nd cpu wouldn't exist! and you live in stafford....hello neighbour! lol
 
No, the OS is still running unless the emulator uses the direct-hardware SDK (which hasn't been made yet). Linux is already good at resource management, tho, and I've heard that coding on the bare metal won't buy you much.
 
kalthare posted on Dec 6 2005 at 12:18 AM said:
unless the emulator uses the direct-hardware SDK (which hasn't been made yet).

err, yes it has :) linux progs can also hit the hardware for pretty much everything apart from sd access and sound so far (hh-mode has hardware sd access). renicing your app/emu to a nice priority under linux speeds it up a little too as it stops linux doing lower priority housework.
 
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Squidge so the HH thats being developed....will it totally cut linux out completely? in-affect being an OS within itself....
 
Squidge posted on Dec 5 2005 at 04:25 PM said:
err, yes it has :)

I apologize. I'm pretty bad at following the news around here.
 
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mattyrb posted on Dec 6 2005 at 12:34 AM said:
Squidge so the HH thats being developed....will it totally cut linux out completely? in-affect being an OS within itself....

yes. Linux will be no more. One of the big advantages is that it'll be much faster at booting. Also, we are planning to do multiboot: ability to boot from NAND, SD, or USB.
 
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