[gentoo-dev] Introduction?

[gentoo-dev] Introduction?

[Jeff Walter]

Hey everyone,

     I've somewhat taken it upon myself to get Gentoo running on the newer Cobalt
RaQ's, Qube's, and XTR's.  I currently have the kernel patch compiling clean
(save 3 warnings) under gcc-3.4.3.  I'm also working on a front panel interface
that is extensible via Perl modules.  Right now I'm looking for people who have
x86 (not MIPS) based Cobalts that are willing to throw caution to the wind and
play God with their little blue box.  Let me know if you're interested, I'll
pass some more information your way.

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Jeff Walter
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(yes, i know my site is busted. more important things to code)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 11:55 pm, Jeff Walter wrote:
> I'm also working on a front panel interface that is extensible via Perl
> modules

what are you trying to do exactly ?  if you just want to do splash-type info, 
then you should try using 'lcdsplash' which i developed on my mipsel 
Qube/RaQ2 and works nicely :)

if you're writing an interface which does something cool (like allows you to 
read / handle the button presses with menus and crap), then i hope you're 
doing something lower level than perl as a backend that way it can be used 
with other applications (can you say GLI with a LCD interface !? :D)
-mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

[Jeff Walter]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> if you're writing an interface which does something cool (like allows you to
> read / handle the button presses with menus and crap), then i hope you're
> doing something lower level than perl as a backend that way it can be used
> with other applications (can you say GLI with a LCD interface !? :D)

I'm building a bit more of interface which handles button presses and such
(forgot your root password?).  The framework is built using Perl, but the actual
calls to set LCD text and query button status are handled via some hacked up
code I found on Sun's Cobalt dev FTP.  I've created an ebuild for it; whether or
not the ebuild was done well is not important at this point, just need something
that works.

If anything wants lower level access, well, have fun :-)  The point here is to
make something that is easily extensible.  I don't want to write something that
requires someone to know C, or heaven forbid Python, to extend.  You know what I
mean?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:57 am, Jeff Walter wrote:
> I'm building a bit more of interface which handles button presses and such
> (forgot your root password?).  The framework is built using Perl, but the
> actual calls to set LCD text and query button status are handled via some
> hacked up code I found on Sun's Cobalt dev FTP.  I've created an ebuild for
> it; whether or not the ebuild was done well is not important at this point,
> just need something that works.

care to post this ebuild somewhere ?  we've talked about how we wish we could 
do something fun with the lcd in #gentoo-mips before, so this might be a nice 
start :)

> If anything wants lower level access, well, have fun :-)  The point here is
> to make something that is easily extensible.  I don't want to write
> something that requires someone to know C, or heaven forbid Python, to
> extend.  You know what I mean?

well, you could always cop out and write the core in C but provide extensions 
for perl/python/ruby/etc... in swig *ugh* ! :)
-mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?

[Jeff Walter]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> care to post this ebuild somewhere ?  we've talked about how we wish we could 
> do something fun with the lcd in #gentoo-mips before, so this might be a nice 
> start :)

And here's the point where I brace myself for all the criticism about my first 
ebuild.  I'll take it all in though, just means out come out with more.

ftp://www.404ster.com/pub/gentoo-stuff/ebuilds/panel-utils-1.0.0_alpha.ebuild.tar.gz
ftp://www.404ster.com/pub/gentoo-stuff/ebuilds/panel-utils-1.0.0_alpha.ebuild.tar.gz.md5sum

I've been stuffing it under sys-apps, but I suppose that's open to change.  I 
can't make any promises about it compiling on MIPS because I have nothing to 
test it on.

> well, you could always cop out and write the core in C but provide extensions 
> for perl/python/ruby/etc... in swig *ugh* ! :)

I "could".  I "might".  We'll see how I feel about it tomorrow.

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