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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    Most, if not all, public SD docs were illegaly leaked. Any software based on them is a legal liability and should probably be avoided. That said, the chances that any lawsuits will be filed are approximately zero. I'm not trying to correct GPH's business strategy. I'm just criticizing them...
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    Bingo, we have a winner. I suspect the reason they are dragging their feet is their license with the secure digital memory standards people. I bet that the SD support is directly in the kernel instead of in a module so they can't release their full kernel source without violating their SD IP...
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    GP2X Gph Cvs?

    One option is to push to get the full source tree from GPH and then completely forget about them. If everybody starts using the Open2X firmware, it will become the established standard.
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    GP2X Gph Cvs?

    So far GPH hasn't fully embraced the F/OSS business model by not providing a CVS server and a person/people to submit patches to. If they were to make this move, then the community effort to build better firmware that is currently in orbit around Open2X could shift to focusing on the official...
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    Hrm. I've been involved with and contributed to the Linux kernel source since 1995. I'm not new to F/OSS at all. I've also made many contributions the F/OSS community, including organizing several projects. From past experience and evidence from other commercial Linux-based products, I would...
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    Even if we do get the source code from GPH (ne DiginSys or whoever), we're still going to be fighting an uphill battle to get any fixes into the "official" firmware. I know that many of you out there don't, and won't, care about the official firmware once you can compile your own, but I think...
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    If all people thought this way then there would not be any commercial PC games.
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    I just posted it to Digg.com in the Linux/Unix category under the title: "Linux-based Portable Gaming Device Manufacturers Not Following GPL". Jump on over and digg the story by going into the "Digg for stories" section so that it gets promoted to the front page.
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    Just like Linux maintaining the main branch of the Linux kernel. Linus uses other developers who have expertise in areas of the Linux kernel source to sort through all of the submitted patches to find the ones that fit into the direction Linus wants to take the kernel. It's a distributed...
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    There are very simple ways to engineer a system so that it is "unbrickable". Being able to boot from the SD is the most obvious one that comes to mind. You could also leverage uboot's ability to have side-by-side images of two kernels, the old one and the new one. Using a key combo you can...
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    GPH wouldn't slow down if they adopted the same management structure that Linus uses for the Linux kernel source code. Active developers like r1yeh, squidge, and rob could vet the patches and find the ones that should get into the next release, clean them up and apply them to the main branch...
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    GP2X Multiplayer Via Cross-over Serial Cable?

    Wha? Where do you get those?
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    GP2X Multiplayer Via Cross-over Serial Cable?

    This would be nice if we were allowed to submit patches to the official GPH firmware source code. I'll be hacking away at the drivers to get USB host mode going out the EXT port and trying to get it into the official firmware. But until that happens, using USB is just not an option when it is...
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    I'm hoping that GPH will see what Apple did, or better yet what IBM did, and emulate them. The problem with the Open2X codebase is that it will become better at some point and there will be significant pressure to start using the Open2X firmware instead of the official GPH firmware. What...
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    Replacement Joystick Caps Available

    Will you give us the details on how you make them? I'm curious. Thanks.
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    Video Player Weirdness After Firmware Upgrade

    Yep, that's the conclusion I just made while playing with it.
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    GP2X Multiplayer Via Cross-over Serial Cable?

    But you can't go directly from GP2X to GP2X which defeats the purpose. I don't want to have to have a PC in the middle that reads from one proxies the data between the two serial over USB connections to get multiplayer.
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    GP2X [rant] Why Isn't Gph Embracing The Dev Community?

    Why isn't GPH totally embracing the dev community? You'd think with them being so pro Linux that they would set up CVS/Subversion servers containing their latest source code and set up a system similar to the Linux kernel project where people can submit patches that might make it into the next...
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    Tv-out Cable Disappointment

    Oh well, at least the EXT connector can be put to good use. Time to build a serial cable. :)
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    Video Player Weirdness After Firmware Upgrade

    Yesterday I bought a PSU and tried to update the firmware on my GP2X. I downloaded the 1.1.0 firmware, formatted my flash card to be FAT32 following the instructions on the wiki, copied the kernel .img file to the root, popped it in and rebooted. I didn't see the firmware updated splash...
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