Dear All The main content of WIP-Day no. 2 had it's focus on the following 4 questions:
1. OpenWrt is in need of a documentation-team - how to go about getting such a team organized, and who should lead it? 2. In similar fashion: OpenWrt could need a more organized release-testing team, now with the constant, and fast, work on new Kamikaze releases - It this a productive suggestion and how to get it into the air? 3. Open hardware: There are at least one ongoing initiative with the intent of convincing oem manufactures to produce a line of devices (basic client-router and super-node) which are specified by the open community and pre-loaded with OpenWrt. To what an extent should the OpenWrt project involve itself in these initiatives, and if how to do this? 4. The OpenWrt project and copyright/ownership to the source-code which is being added to the repository - how to handle individual versus project copyright? It is my personal intention to give these questions further thought and post more specific suggestions in regard to answering/solving them. There was also a very interesting personal project by <Dardcobra> who presented the following: [16:19] <Darkcobra> I'm interested in OpenWrt primarily for hardware hacking. Hooking the router up to I2C, sensors, you name it. [16:20] <Darkcobra> It's my understanding that methods to access the GPIO like kmod_gpio, are pretty slow, due to the overhead of switching from usermode to kernel for each individual bitbang. [16:20] <Darkcobra> And then there's things like the MMC drivers, which are blazing fast. [16:21] <Darkcobra> My idea is to produce a kernel module that would accept a simple scripting language that would describe what GPIO operations to perform. [16:21] <Darkcobra> You send it your script to read a sensor, tell it when to execute, and it performs all the bitbanging and returns the data. [16:22] <Darkcobra> Would allow for much better speed, while still allowing access to any arbitrary attached hardware device. [16:23] <Darkcobra> Anything that requires faster IO than things like kmod-gpio. Robotics would be a prime example, as you'd have a lot of sensors to attach. Should other members be interested in similar things, then I would suggest they contact <Dardcobra> on IRC :-) Thank you all for your support, and WIP-Day will be back on the 25. of August from UTC 12.00 and 24 hours ahead ;-) -- Gregers Petersen, Anthropologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wireless-ownership.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
