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JBMM announces a bounty for 3G/UMTS drivers for gen7/gen8

Monday, September 20th, 2010

We’ve been in contact with JBMM over this for a while now on a certain subject. Now they went public and have announced a bounty for the first person to bring an full featured driver for a mobile-broadband-USB modem to gen7/gen8.

We don’t know yet how this will look on gen8 or if maybe Archos did some more work on gen8 than on gen7, but we are eager to see how things develop.

This is more than just compiling a few kernel modules, this needs also actual Android-support.

Here’s the full announcement and in english courtesy of google translation.

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openAOS brings you: FroYo alpha1 for Archos 5 IT!

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

We had some early development snapshots already, but for an real alpha version we said we want to fix at least WiFi and SGX. For WiFi we even had an bounty and I guess this image is best proof that the bounty has been earned. Furies did the work on it. Thanks to AndAppStore for sponsoring the bounty!

Well we don’t want to make the tension unbearable here is the image:

FroYo Alpha1 for Archos5IT

This also needs this boot-menu update: zImage and initramfs.¹

Enjoy your FroYo! Here are the much easier new instructions for setting up the boot-menu if you haven’t yet.

This image needs the following line added to menu.lst (do NOT use notepad! use an editor capable of proper unix line endings!):

openAOS Froyo alpha|/dev/sda1|/rootfsfroyo.img|/init

This all comes with a bootnote, a rather extensive one:

  • This is alpha grade software intended for developers and tech-savy testers.
  • There are still many unresolved issues and problems.
  • If you ‘just want FroYo’ – this is not for you! Wait until it’s stable and usable.
  • If you don’t plan to give us feedback – this is not for you! Wait until it’s stable and usable.
  • If you expect everything to work – this is not for you! Wait until it’s stable and usable.
  • After this has been said, thank you very much you seriously want to help us with this. We appreciate this very much as we really need every help we can get!
  • If you notice anything that doesn’t feel right, please file an ticket and
    use Android 2.2 Alpha2 as the target milestone
    and Android 2.2 – alpha1 as the version
  • Please do the same if you want some feature included or something improved
  • First boot will take very long! Keep your USB cable connected.
    • First the rootfs gets unzipped (You can unzip it on your PC that’s much faster!)
    • The Android cache is compiled – this can also take a while, just watch the boot logo while this happens.
  • Please join the mailing-list to discuss this image!
  • Want to see if someone is online right now to ask a question or discuss? Join us on IRC!
  • Yes sound does not work, sorry. Next Alpha maybe.
  • Don’t want to install the alpha but still want to help? Consider donating to the openAOS project!

¹ please note that the default Ångström image needs to be modified to work with this kernel! adding the command ‘fbset -nonstd 0′ could fix at least part of the issue during boot process. Expect updates on this soon.

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Closer to Archdruid Froyo Alpha 1 – again a video

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Second video today.
We’ve supplied Furies with some updated binaries and the latest SGX enabled Froyo build from internal testing. Also checked things to make sure we will be able to distribute an image.

This video is what we got back:

Sure looks nice.

As soon as we get our hands on the necessary steps and scripts we’ll spin an Archdruid Froyo Alpha 1 image for all the impatient people out there.

bootnote: Alpha 1 should give you an idea what we think about general stability and buggyness. If you want something as stable as the Archos firmware come back in a few months at the earliest. Currently there are e.g. still power management issues that make the unit randomly freeze.

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finally an contestant for the first bounty? – video shows WiFi under FroYo on A5IT

Monday, August 30th, 2010

We heard some rumors already yesterday but now we’ve received a video that shows what seems to be working WiFi.

We’re eagerly awaiting the formal submission by Furies.

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50£ for the first person to deliver working WiFi on Froyo!

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

This gained momentum way faster than I expected. After some very interesting discussion I was surprised by this:

15:03:44< AlSutton> I'm going to put up 50 GBP (~ 60 EUR) for the first person to deliver working WiFi on Froyo that gets Gr8Ks approval.
15:04:50< AlSutton> When Gr8K gets back he can check the code, confirm it works, and then the payment will be made.
15:05:37< AlSutton> Payment will be via PayPal, and documentation on how to get the WiFi working needs to be included
15:08:10< AlSutton> Unless Gr8K has any objections I'm happy to let the fun begin... :)
15:08:44<@dm8tbr> AlSutton: in this case it wouldn't be that easy to keep the 'completely FOSS' rule though. the ti driver is not GPL. neither is the wpa_supplicant with the load of TI patches.
15:09:52< AlSutton> In the case it needs non-GPLed code it can do what the Nexus One Froyo build does; include a script to pull it from a known location (e.g. existing firmware / device)
15:11:00<+Gr8K> dm8tbr: no pb with the bounty
15:12:32< AlSutton> The N1 script to pull files from the device & put them in the build tree is at
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=device/htc/passion.git;a=blob;f=extract-files.sh;h=afc97d5b5bd777843873c72f39946e018ce07015;hb=froyo-release in case anyone wants an example

(Parts not relevant to the bounty have been omitted)

The bounty is being offered by AndAppStore.

Hack the planet!

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