Open2x newsletter #2
GMenu2x updates
Ryo has been hard at work with GMenu2x and I've updated our GMenu2x to the latests from SVN. This makes it a bit easier to use, and has a more traditional file browser alongside the 'links' mechanism for launching applications (so you can now just select an executable file from SD without creating a link).
Open2x settings
I have looked through the GMenu2x source code and have added a new panel for controlling Open2x settings such as USB networking on boot, IP, telnet on boot, FTP on boot and so on. This should make it a lot simpler to use USB networking since you will not longer need that file in the root of your SD card.
USB host
Finally! USB host has been fixed by Lithosphere in the kernel (it seems that usb-ohci.c was messed up during the 2.4.25->2.4.26 patching process). I've spent some time and managed to get USB storage and USB HID working nicely (there are other modules in the firmware for USB, but since I don't have any of these devices, they are untested currently).
DR3
DR3 will hopefully be coming very soon now. Expect this release to be close to the final public one and will of course have all the features mentioned above and in the previous newsletter. I'm just looking for the built-in applications now (we need an image viewer in particular), but this is not a blocker for a DR release (though we shall not be releasing a public Open2x firmware which is missing some important built-in applications).
Ryo has been hard at work with GMenu2x and I've updated our GMenu2x to the latests from SVN. This makes it a bit easier to use, and has a more traditional file browser alongside the 'links' mechanism for launching applications (so you can now just select an executable file from SD without creating a link).
Open2x settings
I have looked through the GMenu2x source code and have added a new panel for controlling Open2x settings such as USB networking on boot, IP, telnet on boot, FTP on boot and so on. This should make it a lot simpler to use USB networking since you will not longer need that file in the root of your SD card.
USB host
Finally! USB host has been fixed by Lithosphere in the kernel (it seems that usb-ohci.c was messed up during the 2.4.25->2.4.26 patching process). I've spent some time and managed to get USB storage and USB HID working nicely (there are other modules in the firmware for USB, but since I don't have any of these devices, they are untested currently).
DR3
DR3 will hopefully be coming very soon now. Expect this release to be close to the final public one and will of course have all the features mentioned above and in the previous newsletter. I'm just looking for the built-in applications now (we need an image viewer in particular), but this is not a blocker for a DR release (though we shall not be releasing a public Open2x firmware which is missing some important built-in applications).
posted by Orkie at
12:04 AM
1 Comments:
I'm really excited to see DR3 :) USB HDD support is one thing I've greatly missed when using DR2. (I have lots of Game Cube music and stuff to play in Oldplay, much too much to have on my SD card.)
Keep up the good work!
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Kevin, at 4:10 PM
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