Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia środa, 31 października 2007, Shawn Rutledge napisał: On 10/31/07, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems utterly ridiculous to me. A binary is a binary. If you have source *IF* you have a source... It looks like OpenMoko Inc lack source and got OABI binary from vendor of

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Doug Sutherland
Okay this is what confuses me regarding this GPS source code. I have worked with several GPS modules. I have written code to configure them and read and parse their output. Why you would need the vendor's code is beyond me. They provide the specs. The specs are all you need to write your own

RE: Current status, and previous Community Updates: wiki page

2007-11-01 Thread thomas.cooksey
I've created a wiki page to consolidate the current status, and provide a place for you to add questions and topics you'd like to see addressed. I've added a section on the SMedia 3362. Most of my questions have been answered off-list by OpenMoko people (thanks!): There will be no 3D on the

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Karsten Ensinger
Doug Sutherland wrote: Okay this is what confuses me regarding this GPS source code. [...] Why you would need the vendor's code is beyond me. They provide the specs. The specs are all you need to write your own drivers. [...] I am baffled why there should EVER be a need for any kind of binary

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
The Global Locate device does a lot of GPS processing on the HOST CPU which is why it REALLY needs that driver to work. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Current status, and previous Community Updates: wiki page

2007-11-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:46:51 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I've created a wiki page to consolidate the current status, and provide a place for you to add questions and topics you'd like to see addressed. I've added a section on the SMedia 3362. Most of my questions have been answered

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Doug Sutherland
Karsten wrote: Some time ago, someone (I can not remember who it was) mentioned that the current GPS chip of the GTA01 does some calculations in software (means within the driver code), which is done by firmware in other GPS chips. Okay that makes some sense then what is being discussed, but

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Doug Sutherland
By the way I should mention that not only Neo is experiencing the white screen phenomenon. I am doing tech support for phones and many off the shelf motorola and other standard brands are doing this. It's not a huge phenomenon but it has become regular in the past six months or so. Based on

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Doug Sutherland
Gabriel wrote: The Global Locate device does a lot of GPS processing on the HOST CPU which is why it REALLY needs that driver to work. I am guessing, possibly wrongly, that this would be stuff like altitude and velocity calculations. When you look at every bit of a GPS spec there isn't a lot to

Re: Current status, and previous Community Updates: wiki page

2007-11-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 01 November 2007, Carsten Haitzler wrote: as it stands right now - the documents are confidential (thus nda), but any drivers as a result of this are able to be open. this is currently the problem. that means we (openmoko) need to write the drivers - and thus we suffer from the

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Doug Sutherland
Mikko wrote: 2) Yes, it can make sense not to have a bazillion CPUs on board from various perspectives. I evaluated no less than 25 different GPS modules some years ago and compared them in all important aspects. Every single one had a microcontroller onboard. I do not agree that it makes any

Re: Community Update

2007-11-01 Thread Mikko Rauhala
to, 2007-11-01 kello 06:00 -0500, Doug Sutherland kirjoitti: If this one is only sending raw data ie no actual coordinates then it makes no sense to use that part. *sigh* 1) Yes, it pretty much sends raw data. 2) Yes, it can make sense not to have a bazillion CPUs on board from various

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2007-11-01 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Dear Community, I'm extremely excited to announce that Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) has joined OpenMoko, Inc. The man hardly needs an introduction. Please just give him a warm welcome to our community / company ;-) Sean ___ OpenMoko community

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2007-11-01 Thread Ryan Prior
How exciting. :-) Let's give OpenMoko a killer GUI, okay? BTW -- does this mean Enlightenment glitz for the Moko UI? On 11/1/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Community, I'm extremely excited to announce that Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) has joined OpenMoko, Inc. The man

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2007-11-01 Thread Jeremy G
Running e17 even as we speak. Welcome aboard! Jeremy On 11/1/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Community, I'm extremely excited to announce that Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) has joined OpenMoko, Inc. The man hardly needs an introduction. Please just give him a warm

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-11-01 Thread Sudharshan S
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 22:49 -0500, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Dear Community, I'm extremely excited to announce that Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) has joined OpenMoko, Inc. The man hardly needs an introduction. Please just give him a warm welcome to our community / company ;-) Sean

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-11-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:52:59 +0100 Pietro \m0nt0\ Montorfano [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Oh yeah, welcome Rasterman!! So e17 also on openmoko phone? :D Wow!! I'm sooo excited! Um Hi Guys! :) *bounce* E17 on phones - let's see. I'm really keen to see it be able to do that. If it means