<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I sent this straight to Nick Daly by mistake, so I'm forwarding it to the list. <div><br></div><div>It's got some great info. Nick covers justification for using the Debian OS, highs and lows of the Dreamplug, PGP, OpenOCD and the Hackfest. <br><div><br></div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Nicholas Hardiman</div><div><a href="mailto:nick@planetlarg.net">nick@planetlarg.net</a></div><div>@planetlarg</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Nick M. Daly" <<a href="mailto:nick.m.daly@gmail.com">nick.m.daly@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Mon, 7 May 2012 12:32:27 +0100, Nicholas Hardiman wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Are you concentrating on hardware, OS or apps? <br></blockquote><br>I, personally, will be concentrating on infrastructure software work.<br>We've picked Debian as a base because it's pretty hardware independent.<br>It runs on toasters on up, with cost and performance being two of the<br>primary differentiators between hardware platforms (another being the<br>capabilities enabled by the hardware: something without a wireless card<br>will have a hard time passing any wireless network tests).<br><br>I'm mostly satisfied with the DreamPlug's price-point, but not entirely<br>by its performance. The speed at which even my simple website loads<br>pages is unfortunate. We're not overly tied to the hardware, but it was<br>a logical choice at the time.<br><br>I think most of the work needs to focus on the infrastructure and<br>applications running on the system: making it available, useful, and<br>simple for end-users.<br><br>Right now, we're getting the communications infrastructure in place:<br>there's focus on making a PGP key the one thing you need to have<br>automatic and secured communications with any trusted party. Yes, this<br>already happens, but I don't mean it in the standard way. I'll need to<br>follow up with James on the status of that work.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">For instance, do you think you will be covering OpenOCD at the event?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I believe this is the last non-Debian piece to sort out for the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">infrastructure. mwifiex works with those newer SD8787 chips, so the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">whole OS - kernel and all - can be upgraded, automatically, over-air.<br></blockquote><br>This is the first I've heard of either of those (by name, anyway). That<br>sounds like a fantastic combination of things, though. Would you be<br>willing to bring this to the list and the hackfest? I'm sure there're a<br>few kernel hackers on the mailing list just waiting for a driver<br>problem. Is it a GPLed, non-blob, firmware? I haven't gotten around to<br>enabling wireless on my own DreamPlug yet :)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I've been trying without success, and Googling for answers is getting<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">me nowhere. A room full of smart guys with lots of kit on-hand would<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">probably do wonders with this problem.<br></blockquote><br>But yes, I'd be happy to see this as one of the goals of the next<br>hackfest. I think it was one of the goals of the first as well, we just<br>didn't get to it in time. You're right, the hackfest would definitely<br>be the right environment for this problem: it is a group of smart and<br>interested people with a bunch of available devices ready to dive into<br>problems.<br><br>Nick<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>