Robert Schusters Blog

The free and open-source graphics driver for Nvidia graphics cards "nouveau" is going to be tested in the Fedora distribution. I have to say that, as a user, I have some troubles with Fedora right now but this move makes me happy. Even of I do not have this kind ...

No this post is not about a tragic accident. It is about the half-way successful attempt to get the Shark JIT compiler, which is funded by Red Hat and developed by Gary Benson as part of the Zero (assembler) port of the Hotspot Java VM, running on devices equipped with ARM ...

Hi, there have been interesting questions in the comments sections of my last post. I take the time to answer them here: Mark Wielaard asked: Finally, do you have any speed comparisons of the hotspot/zero and cacao on arm ? Unfortunately not. Subjective it feels as if the SwingSet2 demo runs better with ...

As Ken and Sebastian have already announced it OpenJDK integration into Jalimo was finished. However there was a bit of work to do to not only compile OpenJDK but to also package it nicely. This work is now also completed. Additionally - and this was not told anywhere else yet - ...

The support for PhoneME Advanced in Jalimo (and thus in OpenEmbedded) is getting better every day. Apart from upgrading to build 87 I took Ken Gillmers recipe for PMEA with the personal profile (think AWT support) and adjusted it a bit. A test build for the BeagleBoard went so smooth ...

We all love it: Screenshot time! This is PhoneME running on an N800 with the Chinook/Maemo 4.0/OS 2008 distribution. Since the differences between Maemo's Chinook and Diablo distribution releases are minimal you should be able to use the same packages on both. More on that later. And here we have the same ...

This was a big pile of work but now it is a nice achievement for Jalimo: The most complicated issues have been sorted out and we can now build Sun's PhoneME Advanced (Foundation profile) with the JIT compiler enabled for all our little ARM devices (And not only we can ...

Yeah, its true. The OpenMoko gals & guys finally fixed manufacturing issues and the first free (as in Freedom) mobile phone hardware is produced as you read this sentence. Great isn't it? Just in time for this I finished the first bit of work to get PhoneME Advanced compiled in OpenEmbedded. ...

As the title says I like scripts and many other people like them, too. In package management systems there are four of them which are especially important, namely prerm, postrm, preinst and postinst. The maven-pkg-plugin which we are developing for Jalimo to ease the effort to create proper (binary) packages for ...

Jalimo is coming along very nicely. Some weeks ago we got SWT to build fine inside OpenEmbedded and Scratchbox. First it worked at all: Then we added support for those special hildon menus on the Maemo platform: With the new N810 devices the keyboard shortcuts should actually be usable. :-) Invisible and not ...