Friday, November 5, 2010

Wing Linux, the Sleeping Robot

So it's been a while since I wrote here, and in that time a number of you have been wondering (rightfully so) what's been happening.

Let me start off: We haven't stopped! I promise! We've just...slowed down a bit. I think things will start to pick up soon.

So, what's been keeping us for so long? Well, this is a volunteer project, primarily run by one. And that one has been REALLY REALLY busy lately. So, unfortunately not much has been done.

That being said, the linwizard folks have been working pretty steadily on LCD detection code that we hope will ease the inclusion of all those board files we wrote in our kernel sprint into the mainline kernel.

To that end, they've posted a request on their mailing list -- go check it out!

More kernel patches continue to be merged upstream, and we're slowly closing in towards not needing to maintain our own kernel tree anymore. However, with only one or two of us working on this, it's hard to keep it going sometimes.

As far as a 0.5.0 release goes, there's no timeframe for that at the moment. Since most of our work lately has focused on the kernel, we don't have very many user-visible features in place right now (and we haven't been working on much of that either).

So, more than ever, if you or anyone you know is a developer and would like to get in on this stuff, feel free! The code is out there, free for the taking and hacking on. The only way we can go faster is with more time or hands, and time is hard to come by. So please, help out if you can! (Hint hint, Android work is there for the taking -- we're all doing kernel work right now :)

The documentation on our site should be enough to get you going with a checkout. If you run into trouble, though, please let us know so we can fix/extend the documents. I want to make this as easy for people to get into as possible, so please let me know what I can do to that end!

Happy hacking!

14 comments:

  1. hi darkstar
    can you make a config file for opal for compiling the upstream kernel?

    thanks
    gp

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  2. Nice to hear something new...

    well , sometimes time is too short for things to be done. I dont understand programming but I´d like to offer help in testing: my device : HTC prophet. So far really nice work and quite stable. Well done.

    hope to hear from you

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  3. ;.; working audio for the Wizard?
    Please? Maybe? XD...

    Ya guys rock, that said.

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  4. i would like to start with the development for the andriod, but dont know how to get started, so i would appreciate it if you will guide through some basic steps.....

    -AR

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  5. How can I join in for testing... Got Gene here.....

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  6. 5 4 3 2 1 - Wake up! :)

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  7. Seems that they have stopped... many months ago

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  8. I can't connect to device by ssh. What's wrong?


    robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ sudo ifconfig usb0 10.100.0.2 up
    robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ ping 10.100.0.2
    PING 10.100.0.2 (10.100.0.2) 56(84) robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ sudo ifconfig usb0 10.100.0.2 up
    robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ ping 10.100.0.2
    PING 10.100.0.2 (10.100.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 10.100.0.2: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.100 ms
    64 bytes from 10.100.0.2: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms
    ^C
    --- 10.100.0.2 ping statistics ---
    2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.063/0.081/0.100/0.020 ms

    robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ ssh -l root 10.100.0.2
    ssh: connect to host 10.100.0.2 port 22: Connection refused

    robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ ssh root@10.100.0.2
    ssh: connect to host 10.100.0.2 port 22: Connection refusedbytes of data.
    64 bytes from 10.100.0.2: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.100 ms
    64 bytes from 10.100.0.2: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms
    ^C
    --- 10.100.0.2 ping statistics ---
    2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.063/0.081/0.100/0.020 ms

    robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ ssh -l root 10.100.0.2
    ssh: connect to host 10.100.0.2 port 22: Connection refused

    robotex@robotex-laptop ~ $ ssh root@10.100.0.2
    ssh: connect to host 10.100.0.2 port 22: Connection refused

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  9. darkstar are you alive? any news??

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  10. Alo! do you plan another kernel sprint ?

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  11. PLease announce another kernel sprint i cant help with test with my device (htc elf) i really hate the win mobile

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  12. I just sell my old touch viva, and I sell the new phone and got one new again and this projects is stopped! no way to get android on any phone with it.

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  13. Is there any beta with audio support?

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  14. Sad panda. The project sleeps.

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