Rockbox 3.5 released!

Hello all,

On behalf of the Rockbox developers, I'm very pleased to announce that 
Rockbox 3.5 has just been released!

Go here to download the installer (individual zips are also available):

          http://www.rockbox.org/download/

Read up on the most noticable changes in 3.5:

          http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes35

And above all, enjoy!

Alex

Questions about the Rockbox Simulator USB insertion simulation

Hi,

One thing I'd like to change about Rockbox is to enable auto
bookmarking on USB insertion. This is to mitigate the problems
with resuming playlists that get confused when files get removed (for
example podcasts being deleted on sync as they have been played, see
FS#1064).

I experimented with adding the autobookmark function to the USB
insertion code in the wps display but I wasn't able to trigger this
properly from within the simulator. The best I could manage was
triggering the creation of the bookmark on the second "U" keypress, as
far as the display was concerned the USB being unplugged.

Digging into the code there seems to be a difference in the way the
simulator simulates USB insertion and what would happen on the real
event. Whereas the real USB insertion sends a message to all event
queues and awaits acknowledgement from each thread the simulator just
sends the event to a single button_queue.

So my questions:

* Should the simulator code attempt to replicate the real HW call sequence?

  This could be by sending a message to all threads or send a message
  to the USB thread (if it exists in simulator) to then send message
  on.

* Does the event queue/wake up semantics of Rockbox OS behave the same
  way on the simulator platform?

Open bugs in Rockbox

Flyspray contains 234 open bugs:

0 days old: Playback Crashes - ClipV1
1 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10968

1 days old: c200 v1 LCD doesn't turn on when changing Backlight setting from Off to On
0 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10966

1 days old: SUPERDOM game, I love it, but here are some bugs
1 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10964

2 days old: Brickmania - Ball disappears. 
1 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10959

3 days old: WPS background persists on bookmark screen after stopping playback
0 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10957

4 days old: Build error on iPod Nano 2G with EABI toolchain.
0 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10952

5 days old: Rockboy Nano2g sound
1 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10949

5 days old: Playlist should return to original order after shuffle/unshuffle
5 comments, 1 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10945

6 days old: rbutilqt won't compile on OS X Snow Leopard due to lack of ppc support in some libraries
1 comments, 0 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10938

11 days old: Two fingers on clickwheel causes list to jump to top / bottom

Open patches in Rockbox

Flyspray contains 453 open patches:

0 days old: "make veryclean" leaves a few built files (bug and fix)
1 comments, 1 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10967

1 days old: Slovenian language (from translate.rockbox)
0 comments, 1 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10965

5 days old: thumbnail from svg for Samsung YH-820
0 comments, 1 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10948

5 days old: SVG Image for Packard Bell Vibe500
0 comments, 4 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10947

6 days old: Fix car mode on Sansa AMS players 
1 comments, 2 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10940

6 days old: Fix car mode on Sansa AMS players
1 comments, 1 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10939

7 days old: GoGear SA9200 Cabbie port
1 comments, 3 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10937

11 days old: Vocabulary trainer
0 comments, 1 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10932

15 days old: basic touchscreen support for virtual keyboard
6 comments, 4 files: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/10925

17 days old: Fractals: Add the ability to change color scheme

FS#10853 requires testing on HWCODEC targets with radio's. or it might go in and break the fm screen!

FS#10853 adds skin support to the FM screen. its tested and almost
ready for commit but has had absolutly no testing on HWCODEC targets.
there is some special handling in svn to be able to record from the FM
screen on those so without testing I have no idea if its broken or
not.

So test it out, or prepare to file bugs later.

Jonathan

Re: Questions about the Rockbox Simulator USB insertion simulation

Problems downloading rockbox components with cygwin

Re: Problems downloading rockbox components with cygwin

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Hussein Patwa <rockbox <at> patwanet.co.uk> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could advise what I'm doing wrong here.  I've
> installed the full cygwin 1.71 today.  I then tried to download the rockbox
> components needed to compile rockbox.

I'm not familiar with Rockbox development on Cygwin, but Cygwin 1.7 is
rather new and as far as I noticed that release had some bigger
changes. I wouldn't be surprised if binaries for Cygwin 1.5 aren't
compatible with Cygwin 1.7 -- and the binaries on the Rockbox website
are definitely too old to be suitable for 1.7. But perhaps it's just
some configuration file that changed instead.

 - Dominik

RE: Problems downloading rockbox components with cygwin

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Hussein Patwa <rockbox <at> patwanet.co.uk> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could advise what I'm doing wrong here.  I've
> installed the full cygwin 1.71 today.  I then tried to download the rockbox
> components needed to compile rockbox.

I'm not familiar with Rockbox development on Cygwin, but Cygwin 1.7 is
rather new and as far as I noticed that release had some bigger
changes. I wouldn't be surprised if binaries for Cygwin 1.5 aren't
compatible with Cygwin 1.7 -- and the binaries on the Rockbox website
are definitely too old to be suitable for 1.7. But perhaps it's just
some configuration file that changed instead.

 - Dominik

Hi,

Thanks.  If anyone has any idea how I can get around this even if it means manually putting everything
together, or an alternative that does not require a linux installation, I'd be grateful.  Just bear in mind
I'm still learning the ropes so full instructions are appreciated.

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Re: Problems downloading rockbox components with cygwin