Return back to open source world
Jim Huang
As John mentioned in his blog[1], 0xlab developers have been working
for ten months and focusing on certain platforms other than
Beagleboard.
We wish to re-publish our internal work few months later, that is the
reason why we are inactive in open source development recently.
However,
it is time for us returning back to open source wolrd, and
beagle-eclair branch is maintained. Besides Beagleboard, DevKit8000
[2] is supported by
0xdroid, and we are ready to push the current progress.
Extending the development roadmap[3], the tasks we plan to do are as following:
# New hardware support: DevKit 8000 (most peripherals)
# Touchscreen support along with calibration UI
# Graphics Performance Enhancements
# Refined system image installer
# Android HAL
# DSP enablement
Thanks,
Jim Huang (jserv)
http://0xlab.org/
[1] http://asleepfromday.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/ten-months/
[2] http://elinux.org/DevKit8000
[3] http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/Roadmap
Chih-Wei
Look forward your excellent work.
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Chih-Wei
On 2月23日, 下午8時48分, Jim Huang <js...@0xlab.org> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> As John mentioned in his blog[1], 0xlab developers have been working
> for ten months and focusing on certain platforms other than
> Beagleboard.
> We wish to re-publish our internal work few months later, that is the
> reason why we are inactive in open source development recently.
> However,
> it is time for us returning back to open source wolrd, and
> beagle-eclair branch is maintained. Besides Beagleboard, DevKit8000
> [2] is supported by
> 0xdroid, and we are ready to push the current progress.
>
> Extending the development roadmap[3], the tasks we plan to do are as following:
> # New hardware support: DevKit 8000 (most peripherals)
> # Touchscreen support along with calibration UI
> # Graphics Performance Enhancements
> # Refined system image installer
> # Android HAL
> # DSP enablement
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Huang (jserv)http://0xlab.org/
Harishkumar V
Gud news...
beagleboard and devkit8000 supported at this 0xdroid git....
looking forward for eclair to work with devkit8000...
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Thanks and Regards,
Harish Kumar. V
Jim Huang
> As John mentioned in his blog[1], 0xlab developers have been working
> for ten months and focusing on certain platforms other than
> Beagleboard.
> We wish to re-publish our internal work few months later, that is the
> reason why we are inactive in open source development recently.
> However,
> it is time for us returning back to open source wolrd, and
> beagle-eclair branch is maintained. Besides Beagleboard, DevKit8000
> [2] is supported by
> 0xdroid, and we are ready to push the current progress.
>
Update!
Right now, several patches were landed into gitorious. Please refer
to the activities:
http://gitorious.org/0xdroid
And the corresponding kernel support:
http://gitorious.org/0xlab-kernel
> Extending the development roadmap[3], the tasks we plan to do are as following:
> # New hardware support: DevKit 8000 (most peripherals)
> # Touchscreen support along with calibration UI
The above two items are initially completed.
> # Graphics Performance Enhancements
> # Refined system image installer
> # Android HAL
On-going. Also, I would like to introduce the new developer at 0xlab,
Kan-Ru Chen (kanru), who is in charge of 0xdroid
development recently.
Jim Huang
> Hello list,
[...]
> it is time for us returning back to open source world, and
> beagle-eclair branch is maintained. Besides Beagleboard, DevKit8000
> [2] is supported by
> 0xdroid, and we are ready to push the current progress.
> # DSP enablement
We have already extended the efforts from rowboat with some modifications.
In some repositories, there is a branch named after "ti-dsp", which
implies that we improved Android media framework to
be accelerated via TI DSP on OMAP3/Beagleboard. The way to use:
# repo init -u git://gitorious.org/0xdroid/manifest.git -b
beagle-donut -m ti-dsp.xml
NOTE: this requires extra kernel modules.
Jeremy Chang
2010/2/23 Jim Huang <js...@0xlab.org>:> Hello list,
[...]
> it is time for us returning back to open source world, and
> beagle-eclair branch is maintained. Besides Beagleboard, DevKit8000[...]
> [2] is supported by
> 0xdroid, and we are ready to push the current progress.
> # DSP enablement
We have already extended the efforts from rowboat with some modifications.
In some repositories, there is a branch named after "ti-dsp", which
implies that we improved Android media framework to
be accelerated via TI DSP on OMAP3/Beagleboard. The way to use:
# repo init -u git://gitorious.org/0xdroid/manifest.git -b
beagle-donut -m ti-dsp.xml
NOTE: this requires extra kernel modules.
Jim Huang
> For giving a try and following this, please use beagle-donut-dsp branch as
> # repo init -u git://gitorious.org/0xdroid/manifest.git -b
> beagle-donut-dsp -m ti-dsp.xml
> and for building with dsp stack, there is a step that we need to download
> codec engine and using
> # make TARGET_PRODUCT=beagleboard BUILD_WITH_GST=true dvsdk
> For getting more info, please check
> http://code.google.com/p/rowboat/wiki/DSP as well and rowboat project.
DSP information is updated on wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/OMAP3_DSP
Thanks!
Jim Huang
As we promised, 0xdroid is actively maintained. You can check the GIT
activity about beagle-eclair:
http://gitorious.org/0xdroid
Currently, 0xdroid on Beagleboard/Devkit8000 lacks of SGX/OpenGL|ES
engine, and we could only rely on the
default software implementation. However, we still attempt to enable
Launcher2 + LiveWallpaper and RenderScript.
We plan to make a new release (beagle-eclair-0x4) in the end of April.
Please take a look at wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/0xdroid/wiki/Roadmap
The expected changes:
* Ecliar codebase (Issue #62, Issue #66)
* Improve software graphics performance in Eclair (Issue #73)
* New hardware: DevKit? 8000 (Issue #72 , Issue #74 , Issue #77)
* Touchscreen support along with calibration UI (Issue #7 , Issue #59)
* 3G modem / Data card support (Issue #80)
* Refined system image installer (Issue #60 , Issue #52)
* Small screen support (Issue #70)
* ARM optimized string operations (Issue #78)
* Enable Launcher2 and LiveWallpaper? on smaller size screen (Issue #76)
After switching to eclair, we found there are several new performance
and stability issues, and we are certainly willing
to overcome with community members. If you are interested in
0xlab/0xdroid, feel free to send feedbacks or even patches
to us.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,