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// Update on eComStation from Mensys (including Flash10)
1) An update on Flash 10! Please also note the previous build was a
technology preview. It would have been a whole lot easier
if Flash 10 would be around in source code but its not :-) A large hold
up for bringing out a new version was because after Warpstock Stralsund
2009 we had some mayor issue's with SMP support.
The upcoming release (which can finaly been done this coming week!)
will also allow you to make bug reports on. Its not going to be a
technology preview the new Flash 10 release. It might still have
defects but should work better! When its released please read the
documents. You need to update your Uniaud audio driver.
It will work of course with the proper version of eCS :-) eCS 2.0 and
1.2/1.2R.
We are working everywhere to get more developers working on projects to
accelrate eCS developmen further.
Some highlights:
2) A few weeks ago Steve Levine released danis506.add driver with new
chipset support that was already in SVN.
(Driver version 1.8.7)
3) Support for AHCI disc controllers is being worked on. AHCI is the
follow up for SATA drive controller standard.
Mensys does not yet have a driver in its hands. But the developers have
reported the first builds of the driver
(based on Linux code) run in a virtual machine. A time frame for
release is not yet known.
4) Mensys has sponsored Richard Walsh to fix the printing issue's in the
current Mozilla line of products (firefox, thunderbird etc).. This
project is not yet finished but the first release of Firefox 4.0 has
been released.
5) If you take a look at svn.ecomstation.nl we have projects on the way
to support more network card drivers.
First ethernet is in the pipeline and then Wifi. We are doing this by
porting Linux source to OS/2.
As a basis the driver from Nick is used that supports modern Nvidia
network chipsets. On this driver the
Intel e1000e.os2 driver has been based. Currently work is on its way to
merge the 2 drivers.
What is being done is that both drivers all common code is merged to
make porting of other Linux NIC drivers easier.
On top of that media sensing is being added. From driver level its then
possible to send a signal to eComStation
that the network cable is plugged back into the ethernet socket. We can
then do a refresh of an IP address.
Also we are working on supporting the wifi tool XWLAN that currently
works with Genmac Wifi drivers.
A generic interface is being build that Linux Wifi drivers ported can
be used with XWLAN so the user interface ia always the same.
With this common skeleton in C it will be much easier to support more
network cards on OS/2 ported from Linux.
The merge of the Nvidia and Intel driver has been done all code is GPL.
Some access features to SVN still need to be sorted out.
Next to that a new Realtek NIC driver for Gigabit ethernet will be
created and possibly Broadcom.
Cooperate customers need wired ethernet support primarly so that is
where our focus is on.
But we are also looking at porting a Linux kernel module that supports
the current Intel Wifi chipsets.
The company doing the development is analysing the source code for this
but a time frame is not yet known.
6) New packages of ACPI will be released in about month time with new
scripts to make install a lot easier. It will also contain scripts to
collect standard
logs and run standard tests on your system. New features for ACPI like
proper throttle and suspend/resume support are being work done.
7) As you might have seen UNIAUD also received mayor updates. It has
become a lot more stable and much less audio distortion is now
happening.
Please when downloading new builds from http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud,
don't backlevel either UNIAUD32 or UNIAU16.sys. Some changes have een
made that where needed. Like buffer _underrun_ recovery. This can help
with applications like Emperoar TV from the German company S&T.
8) As previously annouched. Java 6 support (command line support) has
been put on netlabs.org as a download.
9) Open Office 3.2 will be released hopefully this week. It needs being
packed and should then be ready to be send out to you guys as a download.
10) More work is happening on a new USB stack. But a release is not yet close.
Regards, Roderick Klein, Mensys BV
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