User: Dclark/Scratch

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 7:45          philv | It's on my list of things to do                                                        │ bbrazil     
 7:47          philv | djbclark: I'm sort of close to d-i working happily on the Gdiums, too, but the Gdium   │ djbclark
                     | definitely wouldn't survive deblobification                                            │ gnufs   
 7:48          philv | so no gNewSense for the time being :(                                                  │ kristianpaul
 7:48            nyu | philv: perhaps it'd be easier to start with 1.6.0 and backport fixes intead            │ lx0    
 7:49          philv | nyu: It was completely rewritten in the interim                                        │ nyu    
 7:50            nyu | well, perhaps it'd be easier to debug the "can't find firmware" problem from scratch   │ orly_owl
 7:50            nyu | that one doesn't sound terribly hard                                                   │ phcoder
 7:50          philv | nyu: part of the plan is an updated driver for the Gdium too                           │ philv  
 7:51          philv | 1.6.0 is completely broken for SM502                                                   │ r0bertz
 7:51          philv | (the other part of the plan is for me to learn some X internals... keep having to      │ r1
                     | change my damned gvim settings to read the code though)                                │ vk5foss
 8:48       djbclark | philv: re: the gdium, even with the wifi card replacement?                             │
 8:59          philv | djbclark: there's some non-free firmware in the SM502 driver for the various           │
                     | GPIO/audio features (that we actually use)                                             │
 8:59          philv | Another project on my list is to write a replacement :)                                │
 9:03            nyu | if you're going into reverse-engineering blobs, I suggest you pick a mainstream one    │
 9:03            nyu | like e100 or iwlwifi                                                                   │
 9:03       djbclark | philv: that's annoying (and new to me); what other than audio doesn't work without the │
                     | blob (I have only a vague recollection of dilinger telling me what GPIO does)          │
 9:04          philv | djbclark: the GPIOs are generally used to communicate with teh embedded controller, in │
                     | the gdium's case                                                                       │
 9:05          philv | nyu: why would I waste my time on something I am not interested in? ;)                 │
 9:05            nyu | philv: oh, I didn't say you should                                                     │
 9:05            nyu | it was just a suggestion                                                               │
 9:05          philv | There's not much code for the SM502's 8051, so I somehow doubt it'd be much effort     │
 9:06       djbclark | philv: ah, and EC is used to make like I/O devices and charging of batteries work,     │
                     | right? So without a blob, no KB/mouse/battery?                                         │
 9:06          philv | djbclark: Well, it'll work in automatic mode                                           │
 9:06          philv | But no fan control is a deal breaker for the Gdium                                     │
 9:07       djbclark | philv: k cool; I just want to send a summary to johns, as I I guess mistakenly         │
                     | recommended gdium+replacedment wifi card instead of a yeeloong to him (since he uses   │
                     | wifi all the time vs rms who uses it very rarely)                                      │