Archive for January, 2006

Birthday

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

It’s my birthday today, I’m 27 years young.
Stsp made this picture for me:

2.6.14 continued

Monday, January 30th, 2006

The cause of the kernel hanging shortly after the first syscall has been found.
The 2.6.14 kernel will be imported into CVS shortly, along with a more recent version of the uClinux userspace.

Wifi driver

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Bret has written a Wifi driver for DSLinux. It has been added to CVS and is enabled in all builds.
Like the sound driver added recently, it still contains bugs, but it’s fun to try it out anyway.
This is what he says about it:
Alpha version of wireless driver.
There are some new files in the tar […]

Sound Support

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I’ve written an ALSA driver for the DS sound hardware, with some help from Parrot.
This driver has been enabled in the builds with CF support, along with userspace applications:
vplay - plays WAVs.
vrec - records from the mic.
mp3play - plays MP3s.
Only 8bit playback is working at the moment, and recording is not implemented yet.
Stereo support is […]