Development

Even if I could not yet solve the problem to my full satisfaction. I at least found a workaround to get the dfu-util working inside VMware Fusion. Now I’m able to flash it from inside VMware and from Mac OS X. The workaround consits of using dfu-util form Mac OS X to get the openmoko ready to flash. I posted the Instructions under http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MacOS_X. But I still hope I will find a real solution for the problem.

I’m currently using Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro to do most of my day to day work. There are some people out there using Mac OS for Openmoko development. But there are lot more resources for Linux. Furthermore I’m more familiar with development on Linux than I am on Mac OS. So I decided to set up a Debian Unstable in VMware Fusion. I set up my virtual machine with USB2.

Today I finally received my Openmoko it’s nice device. By default it came with Om 2007.2 preinstalled, but it didn’t work for me and I don’t like GTK that much. So I switched to Qtopia as my main Operating system as it provides almost all functions to use it as phone. Om 2008.8 seems promising as it uses Qt as well but is not very stable at the moment, so I use it for test and boot it from the SD card.

I finally put ucplib up at launchpad. It is still experimental and some changes are likely to happen! But some people asked me if they can have a look at the code so I decided to put this early version up! You can find it under: https://launchpad.net/ucplib/ If you have ideas for improvement or want to help, don’t hesitate to contact me.

As part of my work re-factoring PySMS I decided to abstract some parts into separate libraries. The first victim of this is the UCP message parser and creator. Until now it was a bit of a bricolage. The functionality it had was very specific to the SMS Server and it was not easy to extend and not useful for general use so I decided to create ucplib. It is created from scratch as a general purpose UCP/EMI library and the aim is to provide all of the functionality demanded by the UCP/EMI specification v4.