Hi, some of the stuff that happened in engineering in Taipei last week: Monday: *) The first 25 GTA03 EVB came back from our small-run SMT company in Taipei. This is the first time the GTA03 design can be tested. Initial u-boot tests looked good, CPU runs at 533 MHz and SDRAM at 133 MHz. This board will be tested thoroughly over the next 2 weeks.
Tuesday: *) Big Om 2008.8 review meeting. Next steps are to adopt a more Debian- like unstable/testing/stable regime. Simplify branches in OpenEmbedded from 5 to 3. Use 2 feeds in org.openmoko.dev to build both unstable (AUTOREV) and testing (fixed revisions). *) Met with sales people for Audience noise cancelation chips. I am wondering whether we really need that and wouldn't be better off to attempt the same in software. *) Discussion whether we should close projects.openmoko.org for new submissions and instead recommend code.google.com. After some debate, we decided that although code.google.com may have technical advantages, we want to try keeping projects.openmoko.org running for now. However, we don't have enough resources to improve GForge, the software behind projects.openmoko.org, and it seems more or less abandoned. Maybe Mark Shuttleworth fulfills his promise and releases the sources behind launchpad.net soon ;-) Wednesday: *) Shawn tested GPS performance on the new GTA03 EVB. We have upgraded from ANTARIS 4 to ANTARIS 5, and see much improved performance, as expected. u-blox did a great job of hiding the many improvements in their solution from us, so the replacement really worked out of the box. Thursday: *) 2 people from Telit visited, and we are excited to hear that the openess of their documentation is not an accident (hello Samsung), but part of their business strategy. Let's hope that is true, and we will take a closer look at their GSM modules, UC864-E etc. Friday: *) Sean back from US trip, where he heard good news from Marvell regarding openess. Maybe we will evaluate some Marvell CPUs, like Marvell 310. *) Slashdot found out that you can now run Debian on the Neo Freerunner (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/08/16/0037221). We are very excited about that, Debian has _MANY_ fans at Openmoko. It won't become Openmoko's official distribution anytime soon, we do believe in the power and flexibility of OpenEmbedded. However, it's good that there is another option available, and we will find out which one works better for everyone. Way to go Debian! On the software side, we keep improving and fixing bugs across the board. Expect to see new repositories and lots of bug fixes soon. Also please keep your contributions coming, patches are very welcome. Best Regards from Taipei, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
