So, as I told at the previous post, I went to FISL 10 last week, also with the opportunity to give a presentation about OpenEmbedded and Mamona.
The conference was quite good this year, not because the level of the technical presentations, but because a lot of important people from many communities went there also. The talks after the presentations, and also at the bar, were the most productive part of the event
My presentation was actually quite cool, with many people interested in OpenEmbedded and also how to hack those Nokia Tablet Devices.
For those who can read portuguese, follow this link to get the presentation.
For those who are going to FISL this year, I’m going to make a presentation about OpenEmbedded and Mamona, showing how the OE woks and also how OE can support so many different machines, distros and packages.
The presentation is going to happen this wednesday (24/06) at 17h. If you are planning to understand more about how the embedded environment works, learn about it’s problems and how OE is handling that, you can’t miss it
Besides the presentation I’m quite happy that I’m going to meet some good old friends. Hopefully we’ll learn more about what each other are doing and also to drink some beers together
At this weekend I finally had some time to work on something that I was in debt for a while, a gentoo overlay for Mamona.
If you’re a Gentoo user and want to test and run Mamona at your favorite distribuition, you now just need to install Mamona overlay and emerge mamona-installer.
In case you’re using Network Manager at Gentoo, with a wireless driver using phy80211, you’ll probably notice that with a more recent kernel version your wireless device started showing itself as a wired one at Network Manager.
This happens basically because hal 0.5.11 has a bug that it shows the wrong information about the device, and Network Manager believes in hal.
To fix this just apply the patch showed at bug #246026. I made a backport of 2 patches from latest hal version so I could still use hal 0.5.11 with my ath9k driver.
It’s been a while since I don’t post anything here. At this time I’ve been working hard at some internal projects inside INdT (also enjoying a small vacation seeing some old good friends ).
Today we just merged a lot of patches at Mamona tree, getting the most we can from other projects and pushing them upstream, so everyone could enjoy the work done.
Differences you’ll notice at the head revision:
Network Manager 0.7
New netm-cli version supporting NM 0.7
New revisions for e-wm and efl
Boot time improvements
Image size improvements
Lots of small improvements and bug fixing
Now (finally!) the next move is getting all patches and moving them to another branch, so we can push them to OE. It’s been a while since we want to work on this, let’s see how it goes now.
Will post here when we’ll start the work, so you can help us if you want
Today I finally had a chance to put my hands at my beagleboard! My lovely girlfriend brought it from her trip to USA
This is just the beginning, just booted it to test if it was working ok, still need to get the serial port working to let the fun part begin!
First step is to boot Mamona and get everything we already have at OE so we could integrate one more board at Mamona
Beagleboard is a really great idea and a fun toy, it’s like keesj said, the hardware is just sexy
If you don’t know what exactly is the Beagleboard project, I recommend you to take a closer look at http://beagleboard.org/ it’s really cool to see all the movement on this little board
It’s been a long time since we released 0.1 (at that time I wasn’t even working at INdT),
so is with pleasure that I’m announcing the official Mamona 0.2-Beta release.
A lot changed since 0.1, we had a couple of goals for 0.2 release, mainly to support
Nokia N770 and to add some highly missing features, like network and virtual keyboard.
Main features already available for the beta release:
Glibc – 2.5
GCC – 4.1.2
Full Python 2.5 support
Enlightenment Window Manager
USB Networking
Bluetooth support
Noemu Packages
Mamona SDK
QEMU (user mode emulation) 0.9.0 for Mamona SDK
ARM EABI Version 5 (N770) and 6 (N8X0 and Omap)
Machines Supported:
Nokia 770
Nokia 800
Nokia 810
Omap 3430
Web browsers: Firefox 3 and Midori (recommended)
Virtual Keyboard
Xephyr support on SDK
SystemTap enabled kernels for N800 and N810
Work to be done for the final 0.2 release:
Network Manager working with dbus API (Open, WEP and WPA)
The installation instruction is basically the same from 0.1, but we’ll create a whole
new procedure before releasing the final 0.2. The main goal of this beta release is to
officially release the SDK for 0.2. For those who want to play with SDK, just follow http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/wiki/Releases/0.2/SDKInstallGuide
These latest weeks we’ve been working to get the virtual keyboard on Mamona. We first studied Hildon Input Method and it’s framework, but it was not exactly what we wanted.
After researching a little more, with suggestion of trickie, we decided to try matchbox-keyboard, and realized that it was almost what we wanted, it’s simple, fast and doesn’t depend on any toolkit.
Then, we got to a final solution, that’s to let matchbox-keyboard working with enlightenment, and with the same behavior as maemo with hildon-input-method.
Here it’s a demo of what you get if you build the latest version of mamona (running on N770 :
We’re still working on to get matchbox-keyboard patches upstream, but, if you need them, you can get at mamona git repository.
Please, use it and test if everything is working fine, or at least as expected . In case you want to report any bug, please open a ticket at mamona’s trac and we’ll work on it as fast as we can .
Thanks Aloisio for working with Matchbox-Keyboard and Enlightenment, Lauro for working on the first draft of mamona-input-methods and Tiago Buarque for the applet icons!
