Donate For Oz?!?

[al_do]

hi all from an italian fan of oz-opie/gpe.
since I haven't linux programming skills (some asm coding belonging to '90... but this is another story...) and I'd be glad to contribute in any way to this wonderful project, tonite was wondering if we (you in fact  ) could set up some sort of donate-o-meter (as pdaxrom is doing for example) for oz.
I think a lot of people around the world appreciate oz with its opie or gpe interfaces and whould be glad to contribute at least with some money. this way it whould be possible to "rent" some good linux guru to give some help to oz-people i think.

let me know what is your opinion since I love my Z and I'd like to contribute some way to make it better!!!

ty and bye
alessandro (IT)

[pgas]

have you seen this page:

http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/developers/

[al_do]

ok, I read the page. the question is: which one to donate if I've a spitz and whould like to have sounds enabled and a sreadsheet in a reasonable time? (for a noob like me is very hard even to determine who I should donate to :x...)

If I had programming skils I'd port/develop what I like, but since I haven't there should be some way to improve users needs... and/or speed up the develpoment of oz/opie.

I think that some "mercenary" programmer could help oz/opie veterans and both speed up the whole project and meet user needs.

feedback from others noob like me whould be appreciated. in the meanwhile I'm donating to hrw since I like his thumb .

bye al_do

[lardman]

which one to donate if I've a spitz and whould like to have sounds enabled and a sreadsheet in a reasonable time?

For a spreadsheet what about gnumeric (you'll need to run OZ/GPE rather than OZ/Opie though).

And I thought sounds were working on the Spitz now...?


Si

[Da_Blitz]

Sound was pushed into the openembedded kernel the other day, patches are avilble in the usual place (http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/), and will apply comfortably against 2.6.15 (which i am testing at the moment)

pearsonly i'd pay to see kexec and cpufreq scaling, might have to look into the pxa250 freq scaling and see if i can just change that instead

[koen]

Sound was pushed into the openembedded kernel the other day, patches are avilble in the usual place (http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/), and will apply comfortably against 2.6.15 (which i am testing at the moment)

pearsonly i'd pay to see kexec and cpufreq scaling, might have to look into the pxa250 freq scaling and see if i can just change that instead
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cpufreq support for pxa25x should be in already

[lardman]

It is, all the dev kernels for the PXA25x processors have it. I think RP said he was going to look at putting together some code for the PXA270s but I'm not sure whether he's done so yet.


Si

[Da_Blitz]

I know, i have a patched kernel with it alread, and after browsing the source i think i might be able to do the entire pxa270 thing myself.

as for kexec there was a post to the openzzaurus lists about an arm patch so i might give that a go

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its a shame that the pxa270 mem and bus timings are so closly tied to the cpufreq and that linux has no support for changing bus and mem timings in the same manner as the cpufreq stuff.

it would be nice to allow a program to hook into the performance monitoring coprocessor and over/underclock the mem and bus timings depending on things like num of mem acsess per second. and then change that thorgh an interface simmiilar to the cpufreq stuff.

oh well i guess i might just have to fiddel with the vals in whatever cpufreq patch for the pxa270 come foward
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