I always thought it was unsociable to have the TV on whist listening to music so here’s the latest hack.
It’s very early at the moment and only prints a little info out and no control is yet possible. That will change when I get to it.
Thanks to Al for the idea..
The LCD is from PJRC.
Andy Wild just mailed to say he has written a bootloader for the wma so it can be booted from any other OS.
Check it out here…
This could be wma11b independence day… ;-p
Here’s a quick update to let you know how things are progressing. The hardware problems with the rack have been sorted and nightly builds should be running again.
I’ve also rebuilt the compiler again to target the xscale processor directly so we sould be able to get better executables from it, and I also patched it to correct some bugs in the last compilers floating point for arm processors. The new compiler will target the nwfpe floating point emulation in the kernel directly now. Although it appears that the floating point compiled into the kernel on the wma has debugging enable which is why you get all these exception messages in the kernel log. Never mind, eh?… I’ll upload it shortly once I’ve tested it a little more.
I’ve also branched the source tree and I’m working on moving the existing code base to use Evas for all it’s graphics. If it works well and doesn’t take too much memory the results should be very nice indeed, and we’ll get some nice alpha blending too.. ;-p
After Evas is working I plan in integrating the EWL widget library so we can replace my crappy listboxes and dialogue boxes.
Then I plan on replacing the flashed kernel with a newer one and a decent boot loader once that’s all done.
Until next time…