Dear alex, Why do you want a trackpoint instead of touchpad? I am in charge of lemote and cuoirius about that. We are designing a loongson3 based laptop with 13 inch panel and hopefully much better touchpad
在我的手机发送 wu zhangjin <[email protected]>编写： >On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Alexander Clouter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> * wu zhangjin <[email protected]> [2011-01-06 02:35:02+0800]: >>> >>> Just prepared Linux 2.6.37 for Loongson, welcome to download it from >>> our LLC git repo[1]. >>> >> If you know where I can persuade Lemote to produce a Loongson laptop >> with a trackpoint, and *no* touchpad, I'll get one. Unfortunately until >> then, alas this tree is not much use :( > >Perhaps you can contact them via this link: >http://www.lemote.com/en/about/contact/ > >> >>> Except the changes from mainline[2], there are some important >>> (Loongson specific) features in this version: >>> >>> o sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task >>> groups >>> >>> This will only be available in mainline 2.6.38, but we have applied it >>> for it does increase the response performance a lot. >>> >> You might be interested in my shell daemon implementation, iesd[1]. > >That's cool, really a good idea, thanks for your sharing ;-) > >> >>> o MIPS: Loongson: Make R4K Timer Work with CPUFreq Driver >>> >>> This has made the high resolution r4k timer work with the dynamic >>> cpufreq driver and fixed the broken system time problem. >>> >> Okay, this I'm interested in, my MIPS router[2] really behaves strangely >> if I set HZ to anything but 100. > >Does you router support dynamic cpu frequency? If not, the above >commit is not you want for it is used to make the cpufreq driver work >normally and also replace the old low-frequency MFGPT Timer to fix the >unstable system time problem. > >> >>> o MIPS: CPUFreq: add precise delays >>> >>> This adds precise delays and avoid the calculation of the >>> loops_per_jiffy and therefore speedup the kernel booting. >>> >> A little while back on the LKML[3], there was some OMAP ARM work done to >> improve the jiffy calculation time and make it more accurate. Removing >> the calculation altogether feels wrong, but then I'm a sysadmin and not >> a kernel developer :) > >You are so modest as before ;-) > >'avoid the calculation' exactly means 'avoid the time-consuming >calculation', the lpj_fine is also calculated. anyway, thanks for your >point to the LKML. > >> >>> o Misc changes introduced by the Linux-tiny project for MIPS/Loongson >>> >>> I have launched a Linux-tiny project for MIPS/Loongson and created a >>> tiny36 branch[3] for it. this project aims to speed up and minimize >>> Linux for Loongson, the long-term goal is make it available as a >>> bootloader and allow it boot (with TinyX) in 5~10s on Loongon >>> machines. the current tiny36 branch has already made some progress, a >>> 830k (compressed) kernel image can boot with the audio, video, >>> ethernet support and (startx from getty) + X + dwm + links2 in about >>> 20s(not include the booting of pmon). kernel image itself can boot >>> into init command in about 4s, if no audio and ethernet support, the >>> size is about 400k. with this project, we may be possible to get a ~1M >>> rescue system for Loongson ;-) >>> >> Wish I could get more involved, but I do always see your nifty patches >> appearing on the various mailing lists you are on and quite impressed. >> Keep up the stunning work. > >Thanks and hope this may help a little on your MIPS router project[2] ;-) > >Regards, >Wu Zhangjin > >> >> Cheers >> >> [1] http://www.digriz.org.uk/iesd >> [2] http://www.digriz.org.uk/wag54g >> [3] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/9/10/4617943/thread >> >> -- >> Alexander Clouter >> .sigmonster says: BOFH excuse #175: >> OS swapped to disk >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
