Re: [iPAQ] H3900 project

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 22:27, Nicholas Hayden wrote:
> I'm a 3rd year computer & electrical engineering student, and i was
> wondering how i might be able to get involved in teh H3900 linux ipaq
> project.

Are there any particular areas that you'd like to be involved with? The
short answer to your question is that you just find something you're
interested in that needs help, and work on it.

If you are interested in the relatively low-level stuff, here are a few
random 3900-related tasks off the top of my head.

 - implement CPU clock scaling to save power

 - find a way to work around the "RTC loses value on reset" problem

 - contribute XScale-optimised versions of glibc/kernel assembler
functions.

 - implement support for pxa250 performance monitoring counters.

 - investigate whether the XScale DSP coprocessor can be used to improve
performance of multimedia applications.

 - modify host-side usbnet driver to work with both H3900 and older
ipaqs in a transparent fashion

 - implement MMC card driver

 - identify ways in which GCC generates poor code for XScale, and modify
the compiler to address them.

 - run crashme, debug ensuing failures

 - start porting to kernel 2.5

Alternatively, if you would like to work on GUI programs, I'm sure both
the GPE and Opie projects have their own lists of future tasks; ask on
the respective mailing lists if you are interested in that.

And, as yet another alternative, there are some issues related to
packaging and building mechanisms. Ipkg itself could use some care and
attention. A scheme needs to be put into place for source packages.
And, ultimately, we want all the binary packages to be compiled from the
appropriate source by an autobuilder.

p.
Received on Wed Jan 22 01:07:49 2003