Trolltech releases Qtopia 4.2.0

Oslo, Norway, 19 December - 2006 - Trolltech®, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today announced the release of Qtopia 4.2.0. With the 4.2.0 release, Qtopia offers complete VoIP and WiFi functionality in addition to enhancements of existing telephony capabilities. Other highlights in the Qtopia 4.2.0 release include an enhanced multimedia player based on the RealNetworks® Helix™ DNA™ Client, basic MIDI support, ease of graphics design with SVG support and support for second or multiple displays.

The Qtopia 4.2.0 release also offers the most extensive open source release for the Qtopia product family to date, further fostering innovation in a rapidly expanding Qtopia developer community. Qtopia Core – for single-application embedded devices – has long been available under the General Public License (GPL) and with this new release, open source is now extended across the complete Qtopia product family.

hackndev.com server updates

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Hack&Dev becomes center of Linux-on-Palm galaxy

I've been browsing the Web and found hackndev site as of Dec, 2005.
Quoting from there.
Post by Alex at Saturday 10 December 2005 - 00:06:25 (right a year ago):

Alex wrote:
At least that's how Andrey (kaafree) sees it anyway. The LifeDrive project (me) has now moved to Hack&Dev. So from now on my old blog will be discontinued and the content has been moved to the LD progress article. Project Status also now includes the LifeDrive. The handhelds.org wiki pages will of course continue to be kept up to date.

Comments will usually be disabled on the news and other pages, please use the forums instead. This is to keep questions and discussion all in the same place to make it easier to keep track of and find in the future.

Thanks for being with us!
The Hack&Dev Developers

PS: Time to change the logo. Thanks mem0 for the artwork

Bug in 0.83 TT3 reflash code

Palm T|T3

The bug, found in old version of smallrom patch is now solved. I've rewritten zboot (the middle-stage bootloader) so that it can wake linux without u-boot (we don't really need that 3-bootloaders-stuff).

In case you still want to use U-BOOT (you don't want to do it, really ) it has to be installed to 0x200a0 (with 0x20000 s/n data intact).

To restore problems of old smallrom patch you need to do two steps:
reflash mtd1 with your backup
reflash mtd0 with updated smallrom (will be on u-boot howto page in several minutes, it's md5sum is 536311dacb78c013bdab518fac8f2ee7)

This time I've modified zboot so it supports ELWPT3 protocol (Extended Linux Wakeup on T|T3), this also allows to pass wakeup execution to any place in RAM/ROM. No more reflashings of smallrom!

Paul Sokolovsky pushed handhelds.org up to 2.6.18

Here is Paul's mesage in handhelds.org kernel-discuss mailing list. So, hh.org is now at 2.6.18, when will we ?

T|T3: Release Update

Palm T|T3

The time has come!
Featuring in this release: sleep/resume (with patched smallrom), sound, cpu frequency scaling and more.....

Current garux release: 0.83 Night Wish
garux.prc: http://hackndev.com/node/159
modules.squashfs: http://hackndev.com/node/249

Warning! Please download the latest modules.squashfs

rootfs: Rootfs images are now available from our sf.net page

Feed the code until it sleeps

Palm T|T3

The news you all have been waiting for: suspend/resume works
It has some minor issues with SD driver, but an ugly workaround seems to help.
Booting is done via dual-boot smallrom/u-boot but it's possible to boot linux without smallrom modification (at least I think so).

/me just tested sleep/resume in GPE and feels great

HOWTO-like thing is available here

HARET/P 1.1 (HARETP.prc v1.1 by Farcaller)

Downloads | Linux4Palm

After a long period of inactivity I'm releasing new HARET/P

Bugfixes:

  • HARET/P is now a standalone prc (however StdioLib.prc is still required)
  • vset now writes correct byteswapped data
  • added command 'help'
  • added command exec to run scripts form pdoc files. Beware! Due to the broken pdoc support in palmpascal you have to end your script with a newline

Bug tracking

Linux4Palm

L4P has got new bugtracking and wiki system based on Trac. You can access it via http://trac.hackndev.com

T|T3 and LD installations are accepting users, others are in "clean" state waiting for a project leader to come and configure project settings

T|X is managed separately at http://projects.linuxtogo.org/projects/palmtx/

Come on, register your favorite bugs

TT3 and U-BOOT

Palm T|T3

I've made some patches for u-boot, so now it can be used to boot TT3. u-boot works very nice and stable when executed from Garux, and has some minor issues when being reflashed over POS smallrom.

What does that mean? That means - we are very near to complete sleep/wakeup support in linux and also we have more free flash MBs (all 15 of them).

The flashing procedure is very easy, so this is my goal for "end users" - no dual booting, make linux work better. In fact, iPAQ handhelds don't support dual-boot (however they keep stock bootloaders intact). But smallrom is very bad choice to boot linux.