New rotate for OpenMoko

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:13:30PM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:10:28 +0100
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> (RMSS) wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:26:27PM +0800, Magnus Boman wrote:
> >> >         http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.1.0.tar.gz
> >> >         http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.1.0.tar.gz.asc
> >> 
> >> How much CPU does this utility use?
> >> I see that there are no delays in your while loop, hence my question.
> >
> >Little, but 0.2.1 will have usleep (1sec feels too long and increases
> >likelyhood of missing packets), as well as an ALRM timer for the
> >"reading from accelerometers hangs after X time" problem.
> >
> >I'm right now testing it, but I gotta work and can't release again
> >until much later on, today.
> >
> >Meanwhile, 0.2.0 is out.
> >  http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.2.0.tar.gz
> >  http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.2.0.tar.gz.asc
> >
> >Rui
> >
> >-- 
> >Or is it?
> >Today is Setting Orange, the 46th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174
> >+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
> >+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> >| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
> >+ So let's do it...?
> 
> 
> Rui, very nice,
> 
> 0.2.0 is much better then the initial 0.1.0 release yesterday :) again,
> the calibration is out for the "upside down" state. Except of rare
> hickups when is seems to start oscillating kind of, this is already
> quite usable :) and not burning so much CPU as the previous incarnation
> did.

And 0.2.1 adds even more CPU niceness and stability... :)

 http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.2.1.tar.gz
 http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.2.1.tar.gz.asc

If people want to send me patches against these version, they'll have
about two days to send them to me, I'm most likely not going to release
because of birthday dinners on Tuesday and Wednesday, after long days on
ITIL Foundation V3 lessons ... 

Rui

-- 
P'tang!
Today is Setting Orange, the 46th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?