new h6300 gpe linux image

Hi just to let you know that there is new h6300 gpe Linux image available in

    http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/

cb22 has also cleaned our wiki nicely in

    http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH6315

This gpe image version has some nice improvements over the previous
versions like
- gomunicator starts now automatically as an applet during the first
boot/login
- working battery, signal and operator monitors in the Gomunicator.
- real battery monitor has also some changes so that it can query the
power information with D-BUS from our user level battery monitor interface.
  (because we do not get the info from kernel space, we can not use apm
or acpi interface for providing this info)
- working phone calls (voice level could be higher)
- working gprs with newest version of GPE mini browser
- power button works (we are however still loosing too much battery
while being suspended)

Biggest things missing
- backlight does not turn off 100 % while we are suspending. Therefore
some energy is eaten too fastly.
- apmd replacement that would use "echo mem /sys/power/state" for
suspending automatically after a couple of minutes in-activity.
  (not sure could "acpid" or "pm-utils" prevent us from re-inventing the
wheel)
- WIFI
- GSM multiplexer to allow the pppd to be open simultaneously with the
gomunicator
  (Instead of implementing the gsm07.10, we need to implement simpler
wavecom multiplexer protocol with this gsm module)

This code is based on to familiar 0.84 but has required about 20 patches
on itself. Hopefully some of those can be accepted
soon also to official code base...

Mika
Received on Mon Dec 11 2006 - 14:27:08 EST