Gp2x Linux Source Release

[Ferentix]

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

 

[falcomadol]

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.

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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 )

 

[Squidge]

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

 

[Javacat]

You could try using PDF Creator to print to a PDF file.

 

[saboteur]

CutePDF also works great.

 

[Squidge]

Thanks, I'll try them tonight when I get home

 

[trooper]

I don`t know if it is of use to anyone, Or indeed a waste of time, But i have converted Squidge`s gp2xkernel.mdi file to a PDF document using PDF Creator, Thanks for the link Javacat.

gp2xkernel.rar

Trooper

 

[kalthare]

So.. where's the USB Gadget code?

 

[DJWillis]

So.. where's the USB Gadget code?

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Just what I have asked DignSys and GPH . 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.

 

[Ninjia^]

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

 

[DJWillis]

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.

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You would also need the mPlayer ported source for that. Work is being done to get that source .

 

[Squidge]

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.

 

[mattyrb]

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?

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

i dont think so. the os is dumped after the emulator is lopaded



or i could be totally wrong...

 

[mattyrb]

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

 

[kalthare]

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.

 

[Squidge]

unless the emulator uses the direct-hardware SDK (which hasn't been made yet).

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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.

 

[mattyrb]

Squidge so the HH thats being developed....will it totally cut linux out completely? in-affect being an OS within itself....

 

[kalthare]

err, yes it has

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I apologize. I'm pretty bad at following the news around here.

 

[Squidge]

Squidge so the HH thats being developed....will it totally cut linux out completely? in-affect being an OS within itself....

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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.