BeagleBox

I’m back from vacation and have been working on integrating Robert Nelson’s SGX patchset into the BeagleBox build.  These patches implement the SGX kernel drivers for the BeagleBoard found in the OMAP35x_Graphics_SDK package for Linux.  This allows building the SGX kernel modules with the rest of the kernel build instead […]

BeagleBox: SGX integration progress

 in BeagleBox / Hardware  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / kernel driver / Launchpad / Linux / PSP / root filesystem / SDK / SGX
Last Friday I finished updating the kernel build for the BeagleBoard to support building a kernel suitable for use with the SGX drivers.  The build depends on the kernel patches from the TI AM35xx/OMAP35xx PSP SDK.  In order to make it easier to build BeagleBox I decided to extract just […]

BeagleBox: SGX kernel build ready

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / DIYers / kernel patches / omap / SGX / sourceforge
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I’ve updated the Design page to reflect the knowledge I’ve acquired about the OMAP SGX and DSP.  There’s still some work to be done in understanding exactly how Clutter fits into that picture but I’ll get there eventually. In the meantime I’ve completed stripping out the theme support from the […]

BeagleBox: Stripping themes, new bugdb project, updated Design

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged BeagleBox / BUI / DSP / flyspray / OSD / set top box / SGX / Xft
I’m working two main issues at the moment:  stripping Matchbox to get a new BUI core and working on building and packaging the SGX SDK drivers.  The former is going well.  I’ve stripped session management and gconf already and checked those in.  I’ve got themes stripped down so that the […]

BeagleBox: Adjusting the design, learning about SGX and DSP

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / DSP / Flash / gnash / kernel / Linux / matchbox / OpenGL / PSP / root filesystem / SDK / session management / SGX
I’m in the process of doing an analysis of the Matchbox code to determine what needs to change in it to create BUI.  So far I’ve mapped out the basic code flow and identified the purposes of the files within the window manager, which is where I’m starting the analysis.  […]

BeagleBox: kernel update, BUI initial release and analysis progress

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / crosstool / dockbar / flyspray / matchbox / omap / qemu / SGX / sourceforge / surf / Xephyr / xterm (updated 5365 days ago)
I decided a fork of Matchbox made the most sense for the BeagleBox UI.  There isn’t much activity in Matchbox and the developers are busy with other projects.  Besides, Matchbox is for hand helds while BeagleBox is an STB. The fork is named BUI, for BeagleBox UI. Not too original, […]

BeaglBox: BeagleBox UI (BUI) initialized in CVS

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeaglBox / BeagleBox / BUI / matchbox / STB (updated 5369 days ago)
I signed up for the Matchbox mailing list last night and have just sent a request to find out the status of the project.  While I was waiting for confirmation of my sign-up last night I started a metabuild for Matchbox.  Essentially its just like the metabuild used by BeagleBox, […]

BeagleBox: Matchbox metabuild to generate patches for buildroot

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeagleBox / buildroot / matchbox / metabuild (updated 5369 days ago)
The version of Matchbox’s panel and desktop programs in buildroot are pre-1.0.  The latest available from Matchbox’s site are 2.0.  I tried to patch buildroot so that the 2.0 panel would build.  This required disabling dbus during the configure and patching the applets/Makefile.in to prevent the notify applet from building.  […]

BeagleBox: Matchbox revision issues

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / matchbox / Matchbox-panel / OpenEmbedded / qemu (updated 5369 days ago)
I spent the weekend trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the XComposite extension to show up under the fbdev X driver under QEMU.  It took until Sunday night to figure out that I need the cirrus fbdev kernel driver along with turning on xdpyinfo, libXcomposite, and the Cirrus […]

BeagleBox: XComposite enabled under QEMU

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / fbdev / kernel / kernel driver / libXcomposite / matchbox / OpenBox / qemu / xcompmgr / XComposite / xdpyinfo (updated 5369 days ago)
I didn’t like the content and management features of SourceForge’s bug tracker so I’ve migrated all the BeagleBox issues from there to a Flyspray-based bug tracker running on my site.  Flyspray provides finer grain organization of issues and allows a visual display-at-a-glance of the status (how much work is done) […]

Bug db migrated from SourceForge to Muse site

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged   Flyspray / BeagleBox / bugzilla / DDTS / flyspray / sourceforge (updated 5369 days ago)
The build for the QEMU phase now runs Matchbox as the default UI.  I’ve integrated an xterm patch from Buildroot’s source tree and launch it as the default application, allowing some runtime testing through the UI. Today I also finished integration of the surf browser into the buld.  This was […]

BeagleBox update: Matchbox is now the default UI, surf ...

 in General  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / GTK+ / matchbox / OpenEmbedded / qemu / thedailyshow / WebKit (updated 5383 days ago)