Re: my comments on meeting1

2008-07-03 Thread Nix
On 3 Jul 2008, bascule verbalised: That means always spinning up the disk on shutdown, doesn't it? The way Rockbox is designed, it does that anyway, in order to save config and playlist_control settings, which it does at every shutdown. Oh, of course, I'm used to having nvram to store this

Re: my comments on meeting1

2008-07-02 Thread Nix
On 2 Jul 2008, Linus Nielsen Feltzing stated: Jonathan Gordon wrote: always keeping track of bookmarks means more disk access. and that extra main menu entry... I thought it was enabled by default and would have no problems changing that default. Couldn't they be cached in memory and

Re: problem compiling latest svn code

2008-02-28 Thread Nix
On 24 Feb 2008, alex wallis outgrape: wondering though, above you mentioned the -n switch what does that do? -n is in POSIX (the collaboratively-developed standard which, as much as anything, defines `what is Unix', and which Cygwin conforms to to a large extent). POSIX says: ` -n The same as

Re: gcc, armv5, armv6 and multilib

2007-10-13 Thread Nix
On 13 Oct 2007, Dave Chapman stated: I think I've solved the problem by adding the following lines to gcc-4.0.3/gcc/config/arm/t-arm-elf and rebuilding gcc: MULTILIB_OPTIONS+= mcpu=arm9e/mcpu=arm7tdmi/mcpu=arm1136jf-s MULTILIB_DIRNAMES += armv5te armv4t armv6 This is the same file

Re: ColdFire-rockbox and GCC 4.2.1

2007-09-25 Thread Nix
On 25 Sep 2007, Tapio Kelloniemi spake thusly: Someone said (when talking about computers) that a fear of hassle is wisdom. I use a Linux from Scratch system, and therefore compile everything from the sources myself. I like bleeding edge, once compiled by system with CVS versions of Glibc and

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-12 Thread Nix
On 11 Sep 2007, Karl Kurbjun outgrape: I would not want to blindly assign my copyright to any one organization without regard to our rights. I would prefer to keep my freedom with the code while I am functional mentally and alive. On Ray's arguments: I do not think that relicensing would

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-11 Thread Nix
On 11 Sep 2007, Bryan Childs uttered the following: When Daniel and I discussed this this morning, we thought of the FSF too. And Apache. Whilst both are definitely worth approaching, we're curious to know if there are any such organisations in Europe - since OSDL, FSF, Apache and SFLC all

Re: Script to automatically download and install rockbox firmware

2007-05-15 Thread Nix
On 15 May 2007, Menachem Shapiro said: I created a file called 98-rockbox.rules and put it in /etc/udev/rules.d. I experimented with different things, trying to use the VID and PID of the usb device as an identifier. I ended up with something like tihs: SUBSYSTEM==usb,

Re: Script to automatically download and install rockbox firmware

2007-05-14 Thread Nix
On 14 May 2007, Menachem Shapiro verbalised: I would love to get feedback on the script, as well as any help regarding udev integration. I tried different things using ATTRS{idProduct} and ATTRS{idVendor} [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DeviceDetection], but it is the first time I

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-27 Thread Nix
On 23 Nov 2006, Linus Nielsen Feltzing told this: mat holton wrote: You see, this is the problem when you let audiophiles or programmers design User Interfaces. Actually, the dB scale solves a very old issue on the Archos, namely the question what volume to set to avoid clipping (0dB). The

Re: Proposed changes to threading API

2006-08-08 Thread Nix
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Daniel Stenberg wrote: Gosh. Abandoning the cooperating multi-tasking of current Rockbox will open all gates to hell and lead to no good. We'll need a bazillion locks, mutexes and similar things and then still have to debug for thread-related problems and dead-locks for

Re: Proposed changes to threading API

2006-08-08 Thread Nix
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Daniel Ankers prattled cheerily: I think the plan is that it will be rare to start a thread on the second core - it would probably be dedicated to audio and/or video decoding. As there is no cache snooping between the cores on the PP chips there will be a number of

Re: which version of GDB do I need?

2006-05-21 Thread Nix
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Bill Janssen suggested tentatively: Do I need GDB 6.1.1? Can I use a newer version instead? Newer versions should work fine. -- `On a scale of 1-10, X's brokenness rating is 1.1, but that's only because bringing Windows into the picture rescaled brokenness by a factor

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-30 Thread Nix
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Daniel Stenberg stipulated: On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, gl wrote: After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from the