Hi
In a related note Kristianpaul<http://co.sugarlabs.org/wiki/index.php?title=Usuario:Kristianpaul&action=edit&redlink=1>of Sugarlabs .co is testing measure in Soas (with arjun's help) in an effort to adapt it to all kinds of hardware. http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sobre_Measure Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are two separate issues I encountered with TA (and Measure). One > > is the need for patches to the alsa audio to accommodate the special > > OLPC hardware modifications. > > That would need to be accepted upstream by the alsa project, and then > distros will automatically get the changes when they are part of a > release. > > > The other is a means within the Sugar > > bundling system to include binaries for multiple architectures. I > > actually had written a work-around for the former, but I remain > > ignorant about the details of how to best handle the latter. (At one > > point, Sascha had helped me include a script that would build the > > appropriate binaries at install time, but that solution depends upon a > > build environment be installed, which is not the default for most OLPC > > systems. Oops.) > > That would be just a packaging procedure. In the case of Fedora it > would be just the arch dependant rpms as opposed to using a activity > .xo file which I believe are arch independent. Unless I've missed > something here. > > > Regarding available sensors, Arjun describes some on the Measure page > > in the OLPC wiki > > Thanks! > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure > > > > There are also many people working on USB sensor input devices that > > would be great to support in general. > > In fedora at least from a driver perspective it would land in Fedora > as soon as the upstream kernel has the drivers. I'm not sure whether > there is a defined api for accessing those sort sensors on linux. If > there was I would presume as the hardware is added that TA/measure > would automatically get support for the hardware as its added, if > there's not I presume there would need to be individual support added > for each device. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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