Hello, On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:52:08AM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > it is quite quiet for a while. But I am sure you have questions, ideas, > requirements, tasks, success stories, missing success etc. to share. > Please write what you would like to see as the next steps of this > project.
Well: WANTS: 1) the keyboard driver is making me *nuts*. (which will be fixed with the 2.6 kernel) 2) Lenny! (same kernel) 3) a guide to converting vids with f.i. avidemux to something the mipsbook can play. The biggest problem seems to be audio. The mplayer in debian-etch (mipsel) seems to be just as fast as the xine that comes with the default distribution. Success: * My macbook is collecting dust. It seems that getting umts to work also is something to be proud of. I usually dismiss that as lack of knowledge, since there is not a linux system to my knowledge that cannot do umts. Anyway: it works with the huawei 220. * debian etch has been running on my books for some time now. It really is preferable. Tips: 1) People should learn about the -X in ssh. That way you can run a fullfledged browser remote. 2) writes are limited. Do not log to the filesystem. Throw it away or use something on a tmpfs. Future problems: Since we *are* going to switch over to 2.6 at some point, we are probably also going to do some sanitizing. The mipsbook contains mlc nand-flash. As I've learned from the CE-linux congres at the NLUUG last year, reading from flash *will* flip bits in adjacent pages. To be protected against that, we should use ECC, and the Jz4730 has hardware ECC support. There are examples, and I guess that just enabling it in the kernel also works. (As a matter of fact: I had to patch the kernel to *disable* it for the 2.6 series). Anyway: that switch will do a lot of hurt, since the OOB data needs to be updated with real ECC values on the nandflash for *all* pages. And booting the old 2.4 kernel will kill that ECC again. Anyway: we need to do ECC on the nandflash, so we need to figure out which way it hurts the least. -- .signature not found _______________________________________________ Mipsbook-devel mailing list Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel
