GPRS under FSO [Was: Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?]

[Russell Sears]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 14 August 2008 19:08:39 schrieb Russell Sears:
>> Anyway, [music|gps] + gprs + phone seem to play nice in FSO.  (I hacked
>> up a openmoko-mediaplayer package. 
> 
> Cool.
> 
>> Headphone insertion isn't detected 
>> yet, but it does mute/stop the music when you pick up the phone).
> 
> Please add a ticket.

Where?

I just added a bunch of FSO tickets to "http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/" 
which has an "FSO" option in the milestone pulldown menu.  Then I found 
"trac.freesmartphone.org"

> 
>> Now I just need music and tangogps to work at the same time.  The
>> framework gps thing is a CPU hog, as is ogg/gstreamer...
> 
> Yeah, ogg is consuming too much. I hope we can improve that. The gps parser 
> needs to be profiled and then extended with a C module.
> 

I spoke too soon.  They both work at the same time, which was not the 
case in 2007.2.  :)

However, they're still both CPU hogs...  I've been looking into the ogg 
stuff a bit.  I think the first step is to update the ivorbis package.

That'll make it easier to try the low-mem branch and tremolo.  I tried 
doing this a while back, but got runtime linker errors from gstreamer. 
Then I got busy with other things.

There are also some other potential issues.  I think gstreamer is doing 
software volume control, and there might be some grossness involving 
ARM's synchronization primitives.  Unfortunately, I haven't gotten a 
profiler working to see exactly where the cycles are going.

-Rusty