BOSSA’10 – Presentation submission deadline extended

Bossa Conference 2010

After some people’s requests, it’s nice to hear that the BOSSA committee decided to extend the call for presentation to January 17, 2010.

This is the first year that the conference is doing a call for presentation, so if you are working with free and open source technologies related to mobile embedded platforms, please submit an abstract of your presentation at http://www.bossaconference.indt.org/.

The conference will be held in Manaus, Amazonas – Brazil, a different city from the other years. As always, it’ll be an awesome conference, having lots of interesting talks and people, and also the opportunity to hack and discuss new ideas

If you have something with Qt, WebKit, Android, OpenEmbedded, Linux Kernel, Maemo, etc, please, go there and try it out, I guarantee that if accepted, you won’t regret!

See you there!

Yet another another FISL 10 report

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.

Some photos (Copyright from Otubo):

In the future I guess FISL will also let the videos of all presentations, so you can download it and see how it went.

Let’s see how the next FISL is going to be, but for sure I’ll try to participate again

OpenEmbedded and Mamona at Fisl 10

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

See you all there

Mamona Gentoo Overlay

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.

For installation procedure just access Mamona Gentoo Overlay wiki page.

List of ebuilds at the moment:

• cdebootstrap
• mamona-installer
• reprepro
• 0xFFFF
• mic
• libdebian-installer (required by cdebootstrap)

Code at http://rsalveti.net/git/?p=mamona-overlay;a=summary

Network Manager, hal 0.5.11 and Gentoo

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.

Hopes that this gets into Gentoo soon.

News from Mamona and myself

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

Mamona HowTo in pt-br

For those who can read in pt-br, here’s a link to a Mamona how-to that Jorge Pereira made.

It has some good instructions explaining how to start playing with Mamona.

And remember, in case you need/want to understand Mamona better, just access Mamona’s Trac.

See ya

Mamona 0.2 is out!

Mamona Logo

I’m really happy to announce the final release of Mamona 0.2!

We’ve been working very hard to accomplish what we wanted for the final release, since the 0.2-Beta release.

We could not delivery everything we wanted, but this is a major improvement from the latest release.

Some of the main highlights for 0.2:

• Improved SDK
• Xephyr support on SDK
• Full Emulation
• Virtual Keyboard
• Wireless Network with Network Manager API
• Command line interface for Network Manager
• Web browser: Midori
• New installer, with our own Qemu (don’t need to mess up with your system anymore
• Completely rewritten wiki documentation
• New Enlightenment wallpaper

See more at the Release notes, and the complete list of what changed at the Change Log.

You can find the installation instructions and much more at the Documentation wikipage.

And, as always, features planned for the next release:

• Rebase to the latest OE repository
• Push Mamona’s patches to OE
• Full support of QT 4
• Initial support for KDE 4
• Something to report the battery status to the user
• More machines: beagleboard
• ARMv7 support
• a newer gcc, glibc and other applications.
• more applications
• MDM – Mamona Device Manager

We’re also planning to make new releases more often, so wait for the next release soon

Please, try Mamona 0.2 and give us some feedback, so we can improve the platform for the next release.

And finally, a big thanks for everybody who helped making this release possible

Finally, my beagleboard :-)

beagleboard starting

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

Hope to post more about it soon

Mamona 0.2-Beta released!

Greetings!

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)
• Fix Track (documentation)
• Mamona Device Manager
• New and lighter theme for Enlightenment
• MIC
• Full Emulation
• Tests and bug fixing

You can find 0.2-Beta repositories at: http://dev.openbossa.org/mamona/0.2-beta/

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

For more info please see http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/wiki/Releases/0.2

Bug reports, as always, should go to Mamona’s Trac; check out
http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/wiki/Contributing#Bugs for links to posting
and querying bug reports for Mamona.

Thanks a lot for everybody who helped making this beta release possible.