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) │
