rockbox/www/irc/rockbox-20020521.log
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**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun May 19 13:32:37 2002
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<elinenbe> hello there
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<Zagor> hi fall3
<fall3> hi
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<adi|work> ack!!! ppl...
<adi|work> make them leave!!!!
<Zagor> haha
<adi|work> did the changes i made to the rockbox make sense?
<adi|work> btw
<adi|work> oh.. and none of them were reflected on the windows side...
<Zagor> the credit stuff?
<Zagor> or do you mean the archos dir?
<Zagor> my !"#$%&/(/&%$# display seems broken :-(
<Zagor> nothing i do works
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* adi|home nods knowingly
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<dwihno> HELLÖ! :D
* dwihno vinkar
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<Bagder> morning
<calpefrosch|work> morning
<dwihno> Höj höj
<dwihno> I sold one of my computers last night
<dwihno> So now I got to spend my money on archos stuff ,D
<Bagder> cool
<dwihno> yup
* Bagder drowns in his email flow
* dwihno sends some more mail to Bagder
<dwihno> 10: print "hello"
<dwihno> 20: goto 10
<adi|home> ack!!!
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<adi|home> ppl here...
<adi|home> no.. ppl arent allowed here...
<Bagder> hey adiamas
<adi|home> its been _my_ room for like 3 days...
<adi|home> GO AWAY!!!!!
<Bagder> hehe
<adi|home> this is _my_ room!!!!
<adi|home> heheh
* Bagder boos
<adi|home> have you seen the credits list on the uisim?
<Bagder> I saw the code on the cvs list, that's all yet
<adi|home> would work fine if i wern' for you sweds and your funny looking letters
<Bagder> ah right
<Bagder> Björn should change his name ;-)
<adi|home> damn right...
<adi|home> don't see me interjecting cyrillic letters in my name do ya?
<Bagder> not yet ;-)
<adi|home> as an exampel :)
<adi|home> that and i fixed the splash sceen a bit
<adi|home> you know.. really "useful" stuff..
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<dwihno> Dr. Zagmaster!
<Zagor> woo there
<Bagder> we should make the credits scroll
<Bagder> hey Zagor
<dwihno> The splash screen should be configurable - think about ppl wanting a quick startup
<adi|home> nah.. ppl deal with the spash screen now..
<adi|home> while the firmware is "loading"
<dwihno> spending precious CPU cycles with scrollers?!
<dwihno> :-D
<adi|home> and im sorry.. if you in a such a rush you can't wait 200 milliseconds..
<dwihno> Do you realize the insanity!? :)
<Bagder> yes!
<dwihno> 200 msec's is 195 too many!
<adi|home> hehehe
<adi|home> and fortanetly... 100 milliseconds faster then most of us think ;)
<dwihno> http://www.hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?request=166
<Bagder> Zagor: did you run the app on target ?
<Zagor> i tried, but I think my screen is broken :-(
<dwihno> :-(
<Bagder> asch
* dwihno sends Zagor some karlssons klister
<dwihno> You can fix just about everything with that goo!
<Zagor> it works fine, the debug output tells me :-)
<Bagder> hehe
<dwihno> See, the glue fixed it!
<dwihno> Never underestimate the power of the Karlsson side!
<Bagder> Zagor: so we basicly need to add Linus' mpeg thread to have a v1?
<Zagor> yup
<Bagder> kewlness
<adi|home> can the uisim play music yet?
<Bagder> on linux, it should be able to
<Bagder> I haven't tried
<adi|home> cause i was just thinking.. it might be perversly cool to realase the uisim evenutally as another mp3 player front end :)
<Zagor> haha
<Bagder> hahaha
* adi|home wonders if that was good or bad laughter
<Bagder> perverse it is
<adi|home> hell... least ppl could play tetris while listening ;)
<Bagder> very very tiny tetris
<adi|home> well.. we offer it to 3 years olds...
<adi|home> their very very tiny ppl
<adi|home> did we ever find out if there is a specific reason you can't use the remote control witht he recorders?
<Zagor> you can
<Zagor> i do
<Zagor> i guess the earliest firmware versions simply didn't listen to the serial port. current versions do.
<adi|home> cool
<dwihno> remote control(?)
<Zagor> there's a wire remote you plug into the headphone jack. it's an extra accessory
<dwihno> cool
<dwihno> does it come with the basic set or do you have to order some extra widgets?
<dwihno> eww
<dwihno> <-- smells like a dog all over the hands
<Zagor> extra
<dwihno> stupid dog, running around licking my hand
<Zagor> it comes with the "travel kit", for some reason
<adi|home> well.. first tme i saw this
<adi|home> ver 1.21d "Implemented improved SCMS* (Serial Copyright Management System), Fixed bugs within
<adi|home> SCMS, which caused errors when encoding from digital source."
<dwihno> Should I get the travel kit?
<Zagor> nah
<Zagor> i never use the remote except for testing
<adi|home> no you should get the travel kit instead
<Zagor> adi|home: the SCMS can be disabled
<adi|home> in software or what?
<adi|home> and will we be implimenting it?
* adi|home prepares to slap zagor
<dwihno> "Serial Copyright Management System"? Sounds fishy
<Zagor> adi|home: SCMS is software only, as far as I understand
<Zagor> so we just won't have it
* adi|home cheers wildly
<dwihno> Why does the recorder store the streams in VBR btw?
<adi|home> someday.. when i can afford to buy congressmen too.. im going to repeal the DMCA
<dwihno> I guess you gurus might have the answer to that question ;D
<Zagor> dwihno: the encoder chip only supports VBR
<dwihno> Zagor: ah, okay...
<Zagor> actually, VBR is in some ways a simpler MP3 than CBR. due to avoiding the use of "bit resevoirs"
<dwihno> Simple answer to simple questions :)
<adi|home> so.. seeing as i have more time this week...
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<adi|home> how close to the jbr do we want the interface to be?
<dwihno> wb Linus
<Linus> yo!
<adi|home> and if you could have me work on any higher level stuff.. what would it be?
<Zagor> adi|home: we'll make two separate interfaces, so make it as close as you like
<Bagder> adiamas: we could use some code for dealing with playlists
<Bagder> I mean, edit, add, delete etc
<adi|home> nod
<adi|home> have we implimented unlink() yet?
<Zagor> we have no write support enabled at the moment
<adi|home> as for the 999 playlist limit on the players... do we know if there is a specific reason for i?
<Zagor> we can't think of any :)
<adi|home> thats fine.. i can prob code around it..
<adi|home> ghost funcitons etc
<Zagor> why do you need unlink() ?
<adi|home> delete?
<PsycoXul> so if someone were to build current CVS firmware and apps for -DARCHOS_PLAYER=1 on both, and threw it on their player, should they expect it to do more than turn the red LED on? heh
<adi|home> how else do you delete a file from inside the player?
<adi|home> yes.. it should wipe your player and send me your credit card numbers :)
<Zagor> ok, no there's no other way.
<Bagder> PsycoXul: well, zagor believed it worked ;-)
<Zagor> I want to wait with introducing disk writes for some time. It's a major risk.
<Zagor> PsycoXul: did you try it?
<PsycoXul> well thats what i got
<PsycoXul> heh
<PsycoXul> it didn't even get rid of the ROM firmware's splash screen
<Zagor> !?
<adi|home> zagor.. you see any prob with getting an unlink() working?
<adi|home> we could test that safely
<Zagor> adi|home: no problems really, but we need to test it exhaustively before letting it out in public
<adi|home> thats a given...
<adi|home> do we want editing/deleting to be a feature in v1?
<Zagor> no
<adi|home> okay.. then it goes on the back burner.. i can code around it for now...
<adi|home> ill just display text saying "your file would normally be <insert action>"
<adi|home> :)
<Zagor> hehe
<Zagor> PsycoXul: that's interesting. i thought it was just my frankenstein's archos that didin't work. i'll try on linus' archos next.
<PsycoXul> ok
<adi|home> i have a small recommendation...
<adi|home> the lcd code...
<adi|home> wouldnt it make sense to have a Recorder version and a player version?
<adi|home> with 90% of the player version just empty functions?
<adi|home> this way we don't need all the #ifdefs all over the place?
<adi|home> and just localize the #ifdefs to inside the lcd.[ch]?
<Bagder> lots of the lcd #ifdefs is due to how the player simulator is working
<adi|home> ?
<Bagder> becuase it uses the recorder simulator's LCD functions
<adi|home> right... and?
<Zagor> I think adi is talking about #ifdefs in the application code, such as tree.c
<adi|home> yeah
<Bagder> ah, ok, I'll shut up ;-)
<adi|home> #ifdef HAVE_LCD_BITMAP
<adi|home> lcd_update();
<adi|home> #endif
<adi|home> in the app code all over is just hideous
<adi|home> so if we did lcd_update
<adi|home> lcd_update(){}
<adi|home> for player
<Zagor> it's a good point. should we have the same API for both?
<adi|home> and the real function for recorder
<Zagor> actually, I added a dummy player lcd_update() yesterday... :)
<adi|home> if not the same.. then very similar
* adi|home saw that..
<adi|home> its what gave me the idea...
<adi|home> i could test out the theory and see how it works/looks before i toss it up..
<adi|home> pass it off to you guys to play with ..
<Zagor> so the question is: should we have a dummy lcd_setfont() lcd_setmargins() etc for the player too?
<adi|home> yeah..
<adi|home> but i woulnd't even say "dummy"
<adi|home> i would do this...
<adi|home> void lcd_update() {
<adi|home> #ifdef.....
<adi|home> #else
<adi|home> #endif
<adi|home> }
<adi|home> keep it localized
<adi|home> wherever possible
<adi|home> the functions that have to differ, well those take diff. args.
<adi|home> let the compiler optimize all the crap out
<Zagor> actually, I was thinking of doing the player stubs as empty macros so they're not even called
<adi|home> i assumed that if a function was empty, and called, then the compiler would just optimize it out anyway
<Zagor> yeah, i guess
<Bagder> no
<Bagder> they're in different files
<Zagor> ah, right. so it can't know
<adi|home> ahh.. so it still has to link it in?
<Bagder> yes
<adi|home> so Zag.. what did you mean about the macros.. what were you thinking?
<Zagor> #ifdef PLAYER
<Zagor> #define lcd_update()
<Zagor> #else
<Zagor> void lcd_update(void)
<Zagor> {
<Zagor> dodum();
<Zagor> }
<Zagor> #endif
<Zagor> or, uh no. i mean the header file not the implementation
<Zagor> do I make sense?
<adi|home> so in the header youd have like
<adi|home> #ifdef PLAYER
<adi|home> #define lcd_update()
<adi|home> #else
<adi|home> void lcd_update(void);
<adi|home> #endif
<adi|home> ?
<dwihno> Just a quick question... Should I order something extra than the 'basic' recorder package?
<Zagor> yes, that was my thought
<adi|home> nah
<adi|home> you can get what you need off ebay
<Bagder> dwihno: no, I don't think so
<dwihno> ah, okay
<Zagor> dwihno: better headphones
<dwihno> Then I'll place my order
<adi|home> hmmm.. well.. only down side .. what about functions taht take arguements?
<dwihno> Zagor: Already got that ;D
<adi|home> yeah. i hate the ones that come with the recorder
<Zagor> adi|home: #define lcd_setfont(__font__)
<adi|home> ?
<adi|home> wtf does __font__ become?
<Bagder> it eats the argument
<Zagor> it's just a declaration that eats the argument
<adi|home> ah.. so just like #define lcd_setfont(x)
<Bagder> it is for #define moo(x) poo(x)
<adi|home> nods
<Zagor> yes
<adi|home> hehe was the __ that through me...
<adi|home> thought i was missing something :)
<Zagor> ah, well you can skip those
<adi|home> well.. might i sugest then #define lcd_setfont(IgnoreMe) or something?
<adi|home> or whatever
<adi|home> hmm.. let me go play for a min
<Zagor> sure
* dwihno gets the bucket and shovel and follows adi to the playground
<Zagor> bagder, linus: what's your opinion about this kind of shadow functions? I'm still not sure what I think.
<adi|home> personally.. i think as long as we state we're doing it.. (in the docs) its a good idea
<Zagor> it could get confusing and bug ridden, since bad code will still "work" on one of the two
<Bagder> I think they're fine, as it makes modules that are shared for both LCDs more readable
<Linus> I didn't follow
<adi|home> want i should explain linus?
<Linus> Is it about accepting a setfont() call on the Player?
<Zagor> yes
<adi|home> sorta
<Linus> Then I think it's dirty, but acceptable
<adi|home> we are still early enough on the road that if we don't like it.. we can always switch back
<Zagor> right
<dwihno> It's a more cosmetically nice way than 102401 #ifdef's
<Linus> indeed
<adi|home> nods
<adi|home> and once the api is set in stone. life gets easier for others that want to work on the project
<adi|home> "oh just use the api, it takes care of itself" is easier and nicer to say then "remember to #ifdef around everything"
<Bagder> right, but people will still do mistakes
<Bagder> since the player won't require lcd_update() but the recorder does
<Linus> Well, I don't like to say "set in stone" but I see what you mean.
<adi|home> thats true...
<dwihno> As long as we are not assimilated by borg, we just have to deal with those problems as those arise.
<adi|home> what we could do is have all the #defines call one common funciton that prints it was called on debug
<adi|home> shrugs
<Zagor> the application code works on linus' archos, but not mine :-(
<dwihno> Zagor: Hmm, fishy! Has he some HW mods that yours don't have?
<Zagor> well my archos is a monster. it's a new cpu and an old lcd.
<Zagor> PsycoXul: did you make sure the Makefile for both apps and firmware specified the right player version?
<dwihno> Zagor: Have you raped your archos?
<Zagor> oh yes :)
<dwihno> You mad sadist!
<Zagor> we wouldn't be at this point without ripping them apart and poking around
<dwihno> Next time, get some photos while you're at it ;)
<Zagor> you mean http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/internals/ isn't good enough?
<adi|home> would it be "#defin lcd_update();" or #define lcd_update() ?
<adi|home> semi-colon or not
<Zagor> not
<dwihno> Zagor: I want to see some pics of the user interface! :D
<dwihno> <-- is a bit perverted, I know
<Zagor> dwihno: there is no user interface to take pictures of yet. try the simulator
<adi|home> yup...
<adi|home> i have a really nice screen shot of my tic-tac-toe before my code disappeared :)
<PsycoXul> Zagor: yes, i've got a studio 20 and i made sure they were both set to TARGET = -DARCHOS_PLAYER=1
<Zagor> hehe
<dwihno> Zagor: Does it compile with mingw/32? :)
<Bagder> dwihno: make it if not
<dwihno> Yeah
<dwihno> Sounds like a heap'o'fun
<dwihno> Where do I start?
<Bagder> get the code from CVS
<Zagor> http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/cvs.html
<Bagder> get the firmware, apps and uisimulator directories
<adi|home> to compile the player version of the ui, not the recorder... whats the make commandline?
<Zagor> 'make' :-)
<Zagor> adjust the Makefile
<adi|home> oh damn you...
<adi|home> bloody hell :)
<dwihno> *checking out*
<adi|home> cool...
<adi|home> but ya don't need to tell us ;)
<dwihno> of course
<adi|home> hehehe
<dwihno> I don't have anything better to atm
<dwihno> So I'll just pester you, great huh :) ?
<adi|home> sounds wonderful :)
<adi|home> okay.. bedtime
<adi|home> niht all..
<Bagder> night adi
<dwihno> nighty
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<Bagder> hey wavey
<Zagor> hi wav
<dwihno> Is it possible to revert to older versions of the archos firmware without excessive fiddling?
<Zagor> just copy the old file to the root dir
<dwihno> ah
<dwihno> I thought the newer versions would prevent this
<Zagor> no
<dwihno> Is the USB-PC communication code in the firmware?
<Bagder> no
<Bagder> it is beyond the firmware's control
<dwihno> ah, okay...
<dwihno> Might as well be :)
* dwihno drools, today I'm gonna order myself the almighty archos :Õ~~~~~~~~~
<Linus> dwihno: So we managed to convince you?
<Zagor> the rockbox sales force :)
<Linus> We want commission from Archos
<dwihno> Linus: Yeah, you did...
<dwihno> I just hope I won't get disappointed when my unit arrives.
<dwihno> I have extreme high hopes about this product
<Zagor> well don't expect a miracle product. it does have flaws.
<Zagor> it's just better than all the rest :)
<dwihno> :)
<dwihno> Do you think I will get satisified?
<Linus> The swedish magazine M3 recently had a review of a lame flash-based player with recording capapilities
<dwihno> And can I trust the storage? I mean, I don't want the hardware to go bongo when I move all my music to it :)
<Linus> and they were ASTOUNDED that it actually cound record sound from the Line-In
<Linus> Bua! They are so lame!
<dwihno> hm
<dwihno> Journalists != techies
<Linus> I would rather say that Archos marketing has failed in Sweden
<Linus> and M3 are totally blindfolded
<dwihno> -( )-( )- <-- blindness goggles
<Zagor> don't trust the storage
<Linus> I always keep a mirror on my PC
<Zagor> it doesn't fail easily, but never depend on something you keep in your pocket
<dwihno> True. True.
<dwihno> How many times has it failed you?
<Zagor> never
<Linus> never
<dwihno> okay
<dwihno> Zagor: you had it for a year or so?
<dwihno> Or is it just me being new in the scene? :)
<Zagor> dwihno: about 18 months
<dwihno> oh
<dwihno> really strange I've never heard about the archos earlier.
<dwihno> marketing failure, I presume
<Zagor> exactly
<Zagor> it's a small company, and Creative's weekly marketing budget dwarfs their yearly..
<dwihno> well, I do see the positive side - It's a non-hong kong product
<dwihno> Never trust fishy hardware from hong kong
<Zagor> well don't hope too much from archos. they're not "the good guys".
<dwihno> You mean, the serial RIAA thingy?
<wavey> the build quality of the archos units are pretty poor
<wavey> but worth it in the long run
<Zagor> no i just mean they are not a better company than anyone else
<dwihno> wavey: in what way? does it feel way plastic or such?
<Linus> they are actually manufactured in China
<dwihno> h
<dwihno> hm
<dwihno> Do they feel like they're gonna break apart any second?
<Bagder> no
<Zagor> no
<Linus> haha no!
--- Linus is now known as Linus|lunch
--- Zagor is now known as Zagor|lunch
<wavey> dw: my unit keeps resetting because of bad contacts
<wavey> needs resoldering
<wavey> happened after a couple of months
<dwihno> geez :/
<wavey> there's webpages showing where to resolder, because it's not uncommon
<wavey> this is on a recorder bought in january
<dwihno> okay
<dwihno> I just hope I will get a flawless unit
<wavey> i love the device, but i wish it was built by sony
<dwihno> Heh
<dwihno> +$200 on the price tag :)
<wavey> alas yes ;)
<Linus|lunch> Soun would never build a harddrive-based player
<Linus|lunch> Sony
<Linus|lunch> They love their silly memory sticks too much
--- Linus|lunch is now known as Linus
--- Zagor|lunch is now known as Zagor
<dwihno> Memory-dick
<dwihno> Yeah
<dwihno> Expensive shit, just look at the price tags!
<dwihno> It's probably in the same range as the recorder-20
<PsycoXul> ok
<PsycoXul> in main.c i commented out everything after init(); in main() and put app_main(); there
<Zagor> PsycoXul: when did you try the app? this weekend, or yesterday evening?
<PsycoXul> and when i run that i get "Rockbox!" displayed on the screen
<PsycoXul> and then when i press a button it goes away and the LED turns red
<Zagor> ah
<Zagor> nothing more?
<PsycoXul> and the LCD still never clears properly on the player, i'm always left with the 03 on the 2nd line after the rom version 5.03 splashscreen
<dwihno> Press the button and the LED turns reeed! :D (alternative infinite mass lyrics)
<PsycoXul> "ROCKbox!" is all it says
<PsycoXul> and then any button gets rid of that, red LED comes on, and thats it [and the 03's still there :p]
<Zagor> if you keep the old browse_root() call, nothing comes up?
<Zagor> I want to change the UI: the browser should be the first thing that comes up, not a "where do you want to go today" menu
<Zagor> when you press MENU, *then* the menu comes up
<Zagor> anyone against that?
<Bagder> nope
<dwihno> Sounds like a good idea
<PsycoXul> ok i put a little sleep in
<dwihno> Try to keep the button pressing to a minimum
<PsycoXul> i also changed the DEBUGF's in the init() in main.c to lcd_prints's so i can see them, and just put a little sleep in after the init and saw it's
<PsycoXul> if (disk_init()) {
<PsycoXul> its failing there
<Zagor> interesting
<Zagor> those should be panic() calls
<Zagor> the only thing that can fail in disk_init() is if you don't have a boot sector on your disk
<PsycoXul> heh
<Zagor> can you do a: dd if=/dev/sda of=disk.img bs=512 count=1
<Zagor> and send me the disk.img file
<PsycoXul> heh
<PsycoXul> ok
<PsycoXul> and where's this panic()?
<Zagor> firmware/panic.c
<PsycoXul> panicf()?
<Zagor> ah, yes
<Zagor> your boot sector looks fine. sda was your archos, right?
<PsycoXul> yes
<Zagor> hmm
<PsycoXul> ok i changed them to panicf()'s we'll see what i get
<PsycoXul> ok its actualy a problem before that
<PsycoXul> if(ata_init()) {
<PsycoXul> its that
<Zagor> ok
<Linus> Is is that stupid check_registers() thing?
<Zagor> no, that's gone
<Linus> sorry, I meant check_hd()
<Linus> check_registers() is still there
<Zagor> sorry, check_regs() is there, check_hd() is removed
<PsycoXul> heh
<Zagor> PsycoXul: make the panicf() call print the return code
<Linus> actually, ata_hard_reset() is probably a stupid thing, BTW
<PsycoXul> Zagor: of ata_init?
<Zagor> yes
<Linus> I can't see how PA2 is connected to the ATA interface at all
<Linus> But I might be wrong
<Linus> My guess is that it does nothing with the harddrive
<Linus> Sorry, it's PA1
<Linus> Still, PA1 is the RAS signal
<Linus> So setting PA1=0 will do nothing whatsoever with the HD
<Zagor> odd
<Linus> yup
<PsycoXul> er why's %d for int, man.. i just booted it up to see it print 'i' :p
<Zagor> %d is ancient. dunno why it came to be.
<Bagder> probably for decimal
<Zagor> decimal, probably. as opposed to %x hex
<PsycoXul> yeah
<PsycoXul> heh
<PsycoXul> ata_init()'s returning -1
<Zagor> we could add a case 'i' in sprintf.c to avoid that mistake
<Zagor> assuming %d and %i is the same
<PsycoXul> heh
<dwihno> Who did the ATA code?
<dwihno> Zagor?
<Zagor> i did
<Zagor> based on alan's code
<dwihno> ah, okay
<Zagor> can the simulators do threading now?
<Bagder> no
<Bagder> do we need that at this point?
<Zagor> that should be a priority, we'll need at least queues for keypresses soon
<Bagder> why?
<Zagor> this poll();sleep(1) isn't very good
<Bagder> ah
<Bagder> we'll just move that to the simulated keyget code
<Zagor> it works on simulator, but gives one hell of a key repeat on target
<Bagder> we can do that without threads
<Zagor> right
<Bagder> I just prefer to avoid threads in the simulator as far as possible
<Zagor> ok. yes we can probably do without them for now
<PsycoXul> so as far as i can tell wait_for_bsy() is timing out?
<Linus> OK. So the ATA code fails at ata_hard_reset()?
<PsycoXul> apparently
<Zagor> no, there's not wait_for_bsy() in ata_hard_reset()
<Linus> OK. wait_for_rdy() then
<Linus> big deal it times out
<Zagor> *what* times out, is the question
<Linus> wait_for_rdy()
<Zagor> he said wait_for_bsy()
<PsycoXul> yeah but wait_for_rdy() calls wait_for_bsy
<Zagor> doh. i'm a moron
<Linus> is ata_hard_reset() fails, it can only be wait_for_rdy()
<PsycoXul> right
<PsycoXul> which can only fail if wait_for_bsy times out
<Zagor> try commenting it out
<PsycoXul> which?
<Zagor> the call to ata_hard_reset()
<PsycoXul> ok
<Zagor> in ata_init()
<Linus> then the next wait_for_bsy() call will fail...
<Zagor> right
* Zagor is a cotton head
<Linus> We should debugf() the contents of the ATA status register
<Zagor> coffee time'
<PsycoXul> yeah so then it just returns -4 heh
<Zagor> add this line to ata_init():
<Zagor> panicf("stat: %02x", ATA_STATUS);
<PsycoXul> where in there?
<Zagor> just before ata_hard_reset()
<PsycoXul> hmm
<PsycoXul> says
<PsycoXul> stat: 00
<Zagor> ok
<Zagor> you have a "new" player, right?
<PsycoXul> yeah
<Zagor> hmm
<Zagor> how big disk do you have?
<PsycoXul> 20G
<Zagor> ok
<Zagor> is it a 6000 or a Studio?
<PsycoXul> studio
* Zagor hmms some more
<PsycoXul> math 15360*1024
<PsycoXul> er
<PsycoXul> heh
<Zagor> hang on, testing on my unit
<Zagor> stat: 50
<Zagor> hmm, hmm and hmm again
<PsycoXul> maybe the rom firmware's doing something different?
<Zagor> yes. or the hardware is different
<PsycoXul> heh
<Zagor> did any of alan's disk test code ever run on your archos?
<PsycoXul> never tried it
<Zagor> ok
<Zagor> but you run the same archos.mod firmware updates as any 6000 user, right?
<PsycoXul> yep
<PsycoXul> 5.07a
<Linus> Damn. We need a serial-modded new player
<Linus> I wish the donated player had a working serial port...
<Linus> Silly me. It has.
<PsycoXul> heh
<Linus> It's just that the charging unit was broken, so we decided to use Björns old display board
<Linus> If we fix the broken board, we have a "new" player to debug
<Linus> we==me, unfortunately... :-)
<PsycoXul> heh
<Zagor> I think it's time to do that. this "franchos" of ours isn't working too well
<PsycoXul> anything else you want me to test?
<Zagor> not right now
<PsycoXul> ok
<Zagor> menu.c is much too recorder specific
<Linus> not very surprising
<Linus> I have made a logic analyzer trace of the Old (tm) Player LCD init sequence
<Zagor> ah!
<Linus> It doesn't seem to be the Solomon LCD that we thought it was
<Zagor> uhhh, do I want to hear this? ;)
<Linus> Zagor: we should publish it and let people try to figure out what it is
<Zagor> sure
<dwihno> Damn
<dwihno> You are evil hardware guru jultomtar dudes!
<Linus> Our LCD shifting code doesn't talk to the LCD in the same way that the original firmware does
<Zagor> dwihno: is that good or bad? ;)
<dwihno> Zagor: *jultomte* = excellent! :D
<Linus> It only sets the command/data bit in the last bit
<dwihno> "1 bit should be enough for everyone"
<Linus> We do it for every bit
<Linus> I'm not sure that it matters at all, though
<Linus> the Solomon data sheet says that it is only sampled every 8th bit
<Zagor> Linus: that's intentional
<Linus> and I assume that our LCD isn't that much different in that aspect
<Zagor> we do it once, and then loop through all 8 bits
<Zagor> it's less complex than stopping and handling one bit specially
<Zagor> I assumed it would work the same
<Linus> I know, Zagor. Just pointng out a difference
<Zagor> ok
<Linus> So now I need a similar trace of the New(tm) Player
<Linus> Zagor: If you don't mind running on batteries, you can just switch LCD board right away
<Zagor> sure
<Linus> And we can trace your LCD while we're at it
<Bagder> go go go
<dwihno> 1x2
<Zagor> hmm, tree.c and menu.c have much in common. we should merge them
<dwihno> There. My order has been placed.
<Linus> I just analyzed Björns New(tm) Player. The init sequence for new and old LCD are identical
<Bagder> that's good at least
<dwihno> really strange
<Linus> Well, almost identical. A single command differs
<Linus> But that might just be that the firmwares are of different revisions
<Linus> I gitta fly now.
<Linus> gotta
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<Bagder> maybe the
<Bagder> desc part of the credits isn't necessary in the software
<Zagor> i know. i just made a quick port
<dwihno> Bagder: I've ordered my archos now!
<dwihno> :D
<Bagder> when will you get it?
<dwihno> hm
<dwihno> dunno
<dwihno> a couple of days, I presume
<dwihno> Hm... 20 gigs over USB1 will take several hours
<Bagder> yes
<Bagder> get a usb2 card ;-)
<Zagor> Bagder: the simulator has no tick, right?
<Bagder> Zagor: tick?
<Zagor> timer tick, for splash timeout for instance
<Bagder> no, but sleep() should work
<Zagor> ah. yes
<dwihno> Bagder: Nah, I don't need it :) For initial sync it would be nice, but it will be nothing but overkill later on
<Bagder> overkill speedwise is nice ;-)
<dwihno> heh
<dwihno> nah :)
<Bagder> time to go home, see ya
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<Zagor> i'm off too. see you guys
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<adi|work> can i assume there is an off button on the player?
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<Zagor> adi|home: you here?
<Tumm> tänk på att
<Tumm> om man slår yxan i båten, får man ro som fan
<Zagor> :)
* Tumm har tråkigt... väldigt tråkigt
<Zagor> han pratar! :)
<Tumm> ;)
<Tumm> följer utvecklingen via mailinglistorna...
<Zagor> ok
<Tumm> tar studenten om 2 veckor, så jag har tyvvär inte hunnit skaffa mig så mycket kunskaper om inbyggda system...
<Tumm> sitter mes och försöker knåpa ihop demos :)
<Tumm> eller...
<Zagor> vilken plattform?
<Tumm> win32 för tillfället
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<adi|work> yeah Zagor whats up?
<Zagor> the off key has to be #ifdef SIMULATOR
<adi|work> nods
<Zagor> the firmware must never exit
<adi|work> ahhh, okay :)
<Zagor> i'm fixing it now, so don't worry :)
<adi|work> ah.. was about to commit :)
<adi|work> then nm
<Zagor> too late :)
<adi|work> i was giving some thought to the whole 'not read a valid file' thing
<adi|work> one concern was excessive spin up and down of the drive...
<adi|work> but if you are planning to 'play' the file, then its not a concern is it?
<Zagor> it might still be, if you take some time to select the next it will spin down and up agin
<Zagor> we should filter out non-mp3 files
<adi|work> you just read your first buffer in, then check and confirm that it is one of the format we want..
<adi|work> i dont evn think that...
<adi|work> no reason you shouldn't be able to 'read' a text file
<Zagor> right, but perhaps not in the mp3 player mode? i haven't thought about it...
<adi|work> hmmm i don't think there should be a 'mp3' mode and a 'not mp3 mode'
<Zagor> maybe not
* adi|work shrugs
<adi|work> ill be around later tonight.. we can try and think it through then...
<Zagor> yup
<adi|work> btw.. what time is it by you?
<Zagor> 22:32
<adi|work> should be like midnight no?
<adi|work> nods
<adi|work> so ill see you in your morning ;)
<Zagor> heh, ok
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<PsycoXul> well the archos firmware does handle being turned off somehow, because custom firmware won't turn off with the power plugged in but archos firmware will
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