Friday, October 24, 2008

Back to basics: Update

In my previous blogpost, I was saying nothing was done last week and I'm very glad to announce I was wrong. Because nobody of Openmoko had released any details of what happened, I though nothing was done. Apparently wrong conclusion.

What are the main things they did?

  • The boottime of Om2008.9 is reduced by 55 seconds. From 2:35 to 1:40. So it's interesting, that the boot time is reduced by a minute in a week. The changes aren't in any image, but will be merged in the future.
  • #1267: The qtopia echo problem was already solved, but now it's included in testing. Hopefully the base image will boot fully again after they smashed bug #2071, So we can test it. But they already have confirmed to be working on it.
  • Openmoko has started to look into the touchscreen of the FreeRunner, So they can optimize it for finger usage. They created a program to analyse the finger touches. Analyses were posted to the mailing list. Also a video made it to youtube.
And they did many more and you can read it in a post of John Lee on the mailling list.

2 reacties:

Marvin said...
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laen said...

Very interesting indeed, if they continue like this, we'll have negative boot-time in two weeks. The OpenMoko was allready booted before you thought about it!