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

[Russell Sears]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Freitag 15 August 2008 09:02:42 schrieb 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"
> 
> Hmm, ok. I'll remember these. In the future, until there's a software that 
> includes the framework, I'd rather like to see the bugs in 
> trac.freesmartphone.org.
> 

Maybe the openmoko trac should document this, by adding the following 
sentence to the "create new ticket" page:

"Problems with the FSO framework and images should be reported to the 
freesmartphone.org trac"

"trac" should link to "trac.freesmartphone.org"

Are there other trac's that bug reporters should know about?  Also, I 
hit a bug involving the events thread and avahi-daemon on an FSO image. 
  Where does that go?  I ask so the answer can be documented on the 
'create new ticket page' or somewhere on the wiki... ;)


>> 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.
> 
> Ok. I try to find someone to look into that.
> 

Great!  Though getting oprofile working (as a easy-to-install package) 
is a higher priority IMHO.  Needing to move ivorbis to some combination 
of low-mem, tremolo and low-accuracy mode is my best guess, but it could 
be that gstreamer is doing something silly to oggs, but not mp3s, or 
some other strange problem...

(see

https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1614

for ogg stuff, and

https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1193

for problems with IPC and arm's synchronization primitives.)

Also, for packages like ivorbis, which repository / distribution should 
people repackage for?  Is angstrom upstream of everyone else?  Is there 
a URL/wikipage somewhere?  I spent a few hours with the wiki trying to 
answer this question for openmoko-mediaplayer2 last night...

-Rusty