From: George Styles <george_at_ripnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:20:24 +0100

Hi,

Sorry if im out of place speaking, as I am not contributing to the coding at
all (time restrictions).

I agree with you, I would love to see a basic release, with playing MP3s &
volume, and not much else. That would prob'ly provide me with the
inspiration to get involved on a practical level. I simply dont have time to
do the required experiments with driving the HW directly from scratch, but
examples ALWAYS improve the situation.

Once that happens, I will grab the compiler, and start playing around with
it!

ps Am I right in saying that as the ATAPI->USB is handled by a hardware
chip, I can still access the HDD via USB and remove any failing firmware?
also, I heard somewhere that its possible to set registers so two outputs
are connected together, thus blowing the ATAPI interface. Does anyone know
if this is urban myth?

thanks

Good work

cheers


george

----- Original Message -----
From: "Björn Stenberg" <bjorn_at_haxx.se>
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Status report


> Hi all.
>
> Although the list is rather quiet, we are making good progress in the code
> (as everyone on the rockbox-cvs list can see). Those of you loading the
> web page every now and then have seen that items on the activity chart are
> turning green at a steady rate. Excluding test code and the simulators,
> the firmware now comprises over 8000 lines of code.
>
> As you know, last week we had the major breakthrough of actual MP3
> playback with the MAS. That first test code was very crude, and Linus has
> been struggling since then to produce something more useful. Although the
> hardware design isn't exactly helping, we're pretty close to a good
> solution now.
>
> The directory browser user interface now features scrolling, so a larger
> number of files can now be browsed and "selected". Dave Chapman and Stefan
> Meyer wrote much of that.
>
> And finally, the disk i/o code is now ready. The ATA driver, FAT32 driver,
> directory handling layer and file layer are tested and green-flagged for
> use. This, combined with the MAS code and the directory browser user
> interface, means that we are seriously approaching our first release.
>
> Speaking of releases inevitably brings us to version numbering. My
> thinking is that we should define a "target feature list" for version 1.0.
>
> I see 1.0 as a very basic and bare-bones application that just allows you
> to select and play mp3 files and control the volume. "Release early,
> release often" is a key motto in open source and I too think it's
> important to get a "rough" version out early.
>
> Opinions?
>
> --
> Björn
>
Received on 2002-05-08