[Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, Newest community update now available at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-09-01 and plain text version below. In addition to myself the latest edition was brought to you by: - Sre - Leadman - Toams ( as usual, you can help out with the next edition at

QtMoko Virtual Memory

2010-09-01 Thread Nashvin Gangaram
Hi I was just experimenting the other day, trying to configure my Neo Freerunner with QtMoko v24 to use Virtual Memory. I created a swap partition on my MicroSDHC Card, using GParted on PC. I notice than on startup, there is something like a Activating Swap Configuration... failed message. So,

Re: [Shr-User] [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Jakob
On 9/1/10, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Newest community update now available at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-09-01 and plain text version below. In addition to myself the latest edition was brought to you by: - Sre - Leadman - Toams ( as

Re: QtMoko Virtual Memory

2010-09-01 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2010-09-01, śro o godzinie 10:50 +0200, Nashvin Gangaram pisze: Hi Hi, this question should go to supp...@lists.openmoko.org I was just experimenting the other day, trying to configure my Neo Freerunner with QtMoko v24 to use Virtual Memory. I created a swap partition on my MicroSDHC

Re: QtMoko Virtual Memory

2010-09-01 Thread Michele Brocco
On 9/1/10, Nashvin Gangaram nashv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was just experimenting the other day, trying to configure my Neo Freerunner with QtMoko v24 to use Virtual Memory. I created a swap partition on my MicroSDHC Card, using GParted on PC. I notice than on startup, there is something

Re: [Shr-User] [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Sylvain Paré
thx too! 2010/9/1 Jakob jackram...@googlemail.com On 9/1/10, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Newest community update now available at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-09-01 and plain text version below. In addition to myself the latest edition

Re: QtMoko Virtual Memory

2010-09-01 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Miércoles, 1 de Septiembre de 2010 11:22:45 Gennady Kupava escribió: В Срд, 01/09/2010 в 10:50 +0200, Nashvin Gangaram пишет: * Does swap cause a significant performance increase with QtMoko? No, i think it may cause significant performance decrease instead. But

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Gennady Kupava
Hi, list, Bit info about glamo timing settings. As for some people: * Glamo timing improvements (= more speed without caveats) can be done also in run time, and also pre-compiled Qi with settings set by Qi are available: is someting new, i want to comment this a bit. 1. I beleive that

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau
Because of FR's NOR bootloader, better to have some hacks in kernel, imho. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau maxpose...@gmail.com writes: Because of FR's NOR bootloader, better to have some hacks in kernel, imho. Some context would help here... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Miércoles, 1 de Septiembre de 2010 12:13:20 Gennady Kupava escribió: В Срд, 01/09/2010 в 14:08 +0300, Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau пишет: Because of FR's NOR bootloader, better to have some hacks in kernel, imho. FR NOR bootloader should not be used for anything expect flashing. It

Re: [Android] Froyo (Android 2.2) on Freerunner????

2010-09-01 Thread Atilla Filiz
AFAIK Serdar Dere is actively developing Android for FR, so I am sure the images are real. How (close to being)usable they are, that is to wonder. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM, David Garabana Barro da...@garabana.comwrote: On Thursday 05 August 2010 16:52:24 Jan Girlich wrote: Am

Re: QtMoko Virtual Memory

2010-09-01 Thread Gennady Kupava
В Срд, 01/09/2010 в 12:38 +0200, David Garabana Barro пишет: It's not true for me, and it's a common misunderstanding IMHO. This is not misunderstanding, this is just one of questions which can't have only one answer. For some tasks swap is good, for others - bad. I have strong (enough for

Re: QtMoko Virtual Memory

2010-09-01 Thread Sylvain Paré
yeah long but thx! 2010/9/1 Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com В Срд, 01/09/2010 в 12:38 +0200, David Garabana Barro пишет: It's not true for me, and it's a common misunderstanding IMHO. This is not misunderstanding, this is just one of questions which can't have only one answer. For some

Re: Freerunner - small and fast distribution only for GPS

2010-09-01 Thread Helge Hafting
On 28. aug. 2010 00:33, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Carsten Gerlachdaswaldh...@gmx.de writes: does someone know a small distribution which is only made for GPS usage? For I don't really see the point in having a yet another distribution. Just take an existing distribution and configure it to

Re: Freerunner - small and fast distribution only for GPS

2010-09-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no writes: I wonder: For such a simple setup, could unsuspend be used instead of booting? I.e. if you lost power, you unsuspend into some saved image, instead of waiting for a cold boot. The state of hardware will be lost, it's not so easy. To be completely

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 01 September 2010, Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau wrote: Because of FR's NOR bootloader, better to have some hacks in kernel, imho. The NOR bootloader is only intended to allow you to fix a broken NAND bootloader. You can do this perfectly well with the slower timings the NOR

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com writes: 1. I beleive that default timings of 4-4-4 is a bug, which should be fixed. Where is no reason to keep default timings. Hmm, wasn't there some WSOD problem that started to occur with 2-4-2? gena2x Weiss: month ago i asked you to comment/do proper fix for

Re: [Android] Froyo (Android 2.2) on Freerunner????

2010-09-01 Thread Thomas HOCEDEZ
Le 01/09/2010 14:31, Atilla Filiz a écrit : AFAIK Serdar Dere is actively developing Android for FR, so I am sure the images are real. How (close to being)usable they are, that is to wonder. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM, David Garabana Barro da...@garabana.com mailto:da...@garabana.com

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Gennady Kupava
В Срд, 01/09/2010 в 18:39 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors пишет: Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com writes: 1. I beleive that default timings of 4-4-4 is a bug, which should be fixed. Where is no reason to keep default timings. Hmm, wasn't there some WSOD problem that started to occur with 2-4-2?

Re: FOSDEM 2011

2010-09-01 Thread Simon Busch
On 01.09.2010 14:09, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote: Hi folks, FOSDEM just released the call for dev-rooms. (http://www.fosdem.org/2011/) After our lucky mini-appereance which was quite well received, I wonder whether anyone would be interested in organizing a combined SHR/FSO/? devroom for

Re: FOSDEM 2011

2010-09-01 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 01.09.2010 um 18:51 schrieb Simon Busch: On 01.09.2010 14:09, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote: Hi folks, FOSDEM just released the call for dev-rooms. (http://www.fosdem.org/2011/) After our lucky mini-appereance which was quite well received, I wonder whether anyone would be interested in

Re: QtMoko Virtual Memory

2010-09-01 Thread Alfa21
hi all, here I am too ;) 2010-09...@15:41 Gennady Kupava В Срд, 01/09/2010 в 12:38 +0200, David Garabana Barro пишет: whoa! a lot of stuff... interesting thread I'd like to add just my 2c: what about reducing the swappiness? since qtmoko v19 I use a swap partition (I'm not for the swapfile