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Too busy with work…

Have been too busy with work lately to even think about working on my project…

Well for those who haven’t noticed it yet, I have started to work a little bit on Toobo’s application architecture. For a start I have chosen to go with a multi-process model with each core functionality running as a separate process.

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Getting there…

I couldn’t write before. Have been quite busy lately (riding my mountain bike a lot :) )

Anyways… I had been stuck on issues related to the new driver port I did for my graphic LCD display for the 2.6 Kernel. I couldn’t get my newly ported code to work. But with some help from the mailing list (at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/ ) I got the old 2.4 GLCD driver compiled for the new 2.6 Kernel after modifying just the makefile. It works like a charm. No issues so far. I can atleast move forward with writing the device driver for my STA015 audio decode chip. Read more »

toobo 1.0 Laika roadmap released

It has been a while since I wrote my last post. To be more structured, the toobo version 1.0 roadmap has been released. Check out the page at http://code.google.com/p/toobo/wiki/RoadMapVersionLaika .

Named after the 1st ever space dog, toobo’s first version Laika will have the following features -

  • Linux 2.6 Kernel
  • MP3 audio decoding capability using the STA015 chip.
  • Port of the 2.4 Graphic LCD driver to 2.6
  • USB wireless connectivity.

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