urjaman
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Craig says July !!
( Is that official enough to put on the unofficial Blog ?? :lol: )
No, he's just prepared to say July
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Extra, Extra, Read all about it !
Craig says " something " !
(Granted, taken out of context it means nothing, and technically he stated no year, but still i hope most people would give him the benefit of the doubt )
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showt...mp;#entry732100
Craig says " something " !
(Granted, taken out of context it means nothing, and technically he stated no year, but still i hope most people would give him the benefit of the doubt
) http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showt...mp;#entry732100
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You say it like its a bad thing ! :lol:
This should provide some welcome news and speculation for the masses !, and some welcome activity for the RSS feeds, that seemed a little unused these last few weeks
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good job Gruso keeping the blog updated
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I enjoy doing it. Credit must go to all involved, especially all the tipsters!
Credit must go to all involved, especially all the tipsters!
gruso
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If anyone notices the blog going spaz in the next hour or so, it's because I'm tweaking the CSS and Wordpress is a steaming hat full of arse. FYI.
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ohhhh... so that's why the pandora/wordpress logo was gone :unsure:
i thought my adblock was going crazy :lol:
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It's 50px wider now (after much frustration) so it will fill out 800x480 screens a little better. Looks pretty good on an Eee701. More stuff on the way...
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This is progress! The official estimate is at less than "2 months from now" now.
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He switched to lurk mode and relied on the Community Blog for info.
Many thanks to the Blog Guys, especially Gruso
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Esn
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http://openpandora.wordpress.com/links/
Neat! You forgot some, though:
http://www.openpandora.ca/ (MWeston's site)
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/MWeston_2007/ (his photobucket)
http://www.openpandora.pl (unofficial Polish site started by StreaK. Hando is a member)
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the new Gentoo Pandora OS release is out, 0.0.3-base: http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=48236
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Trust the recursion...
ED also posted a follow-up on the blog about the TV-Out cable:
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Geez, I just got some up-to-date news I don't want to hold back.
The TV Out cable design is also finished and a prototype can be produced within five days. Nice
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Geez, I just got some up-to-date news I don't want to hold back.
The TV Out cable design is also finished and a prototype can be produced within five days. Nice
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Maybe not dense enough to get a blog entry, but nonetheless something that shouldn't get burried, so I'll just post it here.
In short: Android basically runs on Pandora, WebOS apps will most likely run on Pandora, too.
It could be interesting to squeeze some more info out of DJWillis about this. Android is a nice topic to fetch some headlines
As for WebOS, we already share a great deal. WebOS is built using Open Embedded (just like the Pandora) and while Palm have noted that there GUI elements are closed you can be very sure that any cool stuff they have done with open source bits will get fed up into mainline Open Embedded and from there trickle down to the Pandora (both directly and via the Angstrom distro).
In short: Android basically runs on Pandora, WebOS apps will most likely run on Pandora, too.
It could be interesting to squeeze some more info out of DJWillis about this. Android is a nice topic to fetch some headlines
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Maybe not dense enough to get a blog entry, but nonetheless something that shouldn't get burried, so I'll just post it here.
Agreed on both points. Definitely an interesting bit of info, could be handy to refer to later.
We did put a blog post up when Android was ported to Beagleboard, but (surprisingly) no one even commented. Android on a Pandora screen will make for a nice story when we have pics though.
Maybe not dense enough to get a blog entry, but nonetheless something that shouldn't get burried, so I'll just post it here.
Agreed on both points.
Definitely an interesting bit of info, could be handy to refer to later.We did put a blog post up when Android was ported to Beagleboard, but (surprisingly) no one even commented.
Android on a Pandora screen will make for a nice story when we have pics though.
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ED posts new info about the wifi driver.
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Hiya, it's EvilDragon again.
I got some more fresh news, and those are not about delaying or anything like that.
As you have all read, the only driver problem is WiFi. To put things short (and as they are pretty complicated), here is what was our problem:
There's a closed-source driver available for the WiFi chip, but we didn't at all want to use it (hey, we're OPENPandora, not ClosedPandora). Then we found an OpenSource project for that WiFi chip - we used it and it worked well at the beginning (you might remember some WiFi testing videos).
But that driver was poorly coded - and it did have more and more problems. We can't even get to work it anymore with the latest Angström image, only with our testing rootfs (which is good, as we do know that the hardware is fine.
Well, DJWillis wanted to take on the WiFi task - and it's already looking really good. He found another driver which should work way better - and it already compiled with our latest kernel.
So basically, that WiFi issue MIGHT be solved faster than we thought. There's still a lot of work needed, but this has been a HUGE progress.
I'll keep you informed.
http://openpandora.org/blog.php
Edit: Quoted blog.
QUOTE ("Official Blog")
Hiya, it's EvilDragon again.
I got some more fresh news, and those are not about delaying or anything like that.
As you have all read, the only driver problem is WiFi. To put things short (and as they are pretty complicated), here is what was our problem:
There's a closed-source driver available for the WiFi chip, but we didn't at all want to use it (hey, we're OPENPandora, not ClosedPandora). Then we found an OpenSource project for that WiFi chip - we used it and it worked well at the beginning (you might remember some WiFi testing videos).
But that driver was poorly coded - and it did have more and more problems. We can't even get to work it anymore with the latest Angström image, only with our testing rootfs (which is good, as we do know that the hardware is fine.
Well, DJWillis wanted to take on the WiFi task - and it's already looking really good. He found another driver which should work way better - and it already compiled with our latest kernel.
So basically, that WiFi issue MIGHT be solved faster than we thought. There's still a lot of work needed, but this has been a HUGE progress.
I'll keep you informed.
http://openpandora.org/blog.php
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Good news
I remember DJWillis posting in the Beagleboard IRC about using G1's driver long ago. I should check the log, there could be new info.
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DJWillis explains the driver situation:
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Anyway, we actually have 2 open source options so I’ll give people a little background.
One is the TI WiLink 4 based ‘partial’ driver that was opened as part of the Google Android G1 release.
This driver is unfortunately a mess and really has no place in a modern system (ancient design architecture, lots of semi-bespoke shims, some really nasty bugs etc.).
We can use this driver if you don’t mind setting it up from one clunky user space app that crashes a lot and lacks solid support for things like WEP/WPA etc. – Really this driver is only of use for hardware validation not real use from users. Even after I hacked in Wireless Extensions support (yep, the driver is THAT old) it’s still not a driver I would want to use (sorry but I hate lots of nasty random mem leaks and errors).
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The next open option is the WL12xx driver written by Kalle Valo of Nokia. This is a nice modern driver (MAC80211) and is already in Wireless-Testing (as of a few days ago) and on its way to mainline.
This driver was SPI only but a gent by the name of Bob Copeland added the start of SDIO support and we are working off that base to bring the driver up on the Pandora so we have a nice solid mainline driver to use that is actively developed, supports the Pandora out of the gate, and is easy to maintain.
As of now I have the WL2151 firmware loading on the Pandora with the new driver and lots of nice signs of life but the work is a little way away from passing traffic (the Linux SDIO stack is causing me pain).
Not sure if that counts as an update .
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If anyone wants patches (or is familiar with the kernels SDIO stack) drop me a bell.
John
I remember DJWillis posting in the Beagleboard IRC about using G1's driver long ago. I should check the log, there could be new info.
Edit:
DJWillis explains the driver situation:
I’ll elaborate sometime on that but lets just say that is not a viable option for many reasons.
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Anyway, we actually have 2 open source options so I’ll give people a little background.
One is the TI WiLink 4 based ‘partial’ driver that was opened as part of the Google Android G1 release.
This driver is unfortunately a mess and really has no place in a modern system (ancient design architecture, lots of semi-bespoke shims, some really nasty bugs etc.).
We can use this driver if you don’t mind setting it up from one clunky user space app that crashes a lot and lacks solid support for things like WEP/WPA etc. – Really this driver is only of use for hardware validation not real use from users. Even after I hacked in Wireless Extensions support (yep, the driver is THAT old) it’s still not a driver I would want to use (sorry but I hate lots of nasty random mem leaks and errors).
—
The next open option is the WL12xx driver written by Kalle Valo of Nokia. This is a nice modern driver (MAC80211) and is already in Wireless-Testing (as of a few days ago) and on its way to mainline.
This driver was SPI only but a gent by the name of Bob Copeland added the start of SDIO support and we are working off that base to bring the driver up on the Pandora so we have a nice solid mainline driver to use that is actively developed, supports the Pandora out of the gate, and is easy to maintain.
As of now I have the WL2151 firmware loading on the Pandora with the new driver and lots of nice signs of life but the work is a little way away from passing traffic
(the Linux SDIO stack is causing me pain).Not sure if that counts as an update
.Once I get things settled (hopefully) I want to have a play with trying to get hostapd going as I have some funky uses for a mobile access point in mind
.If anyone wants patches (or is familiar with the kernels SDIO stack) drop me a bell.
John
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