Re: Anyone here?

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:28, Mateo Obregon wrote:
> Hi-
>
> > > Is it worth while trying to put Intimate on my 3955?
> >
> > Unless you want to do substantial amounts of the work yourself, no. We
> > have only just started to get 38xx compatible - most of us are on 36xx
> > hardware.
>
> One kind-of complaint I am having with Familiar/Handhelds is that the software
> advances very slowly for the H/W. Now there are new 128MB iPaqs running
> 400MHz PXA CPUs, but Familiar/GPE or OPIE still just cover the 250MHz SA 64MB
> RAM scheme of things.
>

Familiar, GPE, and Opie have been running on the H3900 (pxa250/400MHz,
48MB Flash, upgradeable to 128MB DRAM for quite some time now. Familiar
0.7 has oh-so-slowly approached release because there are not enough
people fixing bugs and maintaining packages.

If you want to have the latest code running on the newest hardware, it
helps to hang out on irc.freenode.net #handhelds.org, and to be willing
to do some experimenting.

One thing that has slowed down the release cycle is the introduction of
new models: H1910 and H5400 at the end of 2002, each with completely
different asic's, lcd controllers, and sound chips implementing all the
peripherals. Now we have an update of the H5400, the new H2200, and the
new H1940 which is completely different from all the other models,
including CPU. More kernel developers are needed, if we want to have
the software keep up with the hardware.

I'm sure both the Familiar and Intimate projects would welcome new
contributors who can help test/diagnose/debug/develop in order to speed
up the release process.

-Jamey
Received on Thu Jun 26 12:18:23 2003