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Re: Proposals, Bug Fixes, etc and tracking them with SourceForge
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Sun, 24 Mar 2002 07:58:33 GMT
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I read over the proposed release changes for 0.2.6, just a few ideas.

I recently picked up a second RCX and found it quite difficult to do
development using legOS on two RCXs.  I might just be missing something, but I
had to maintain two seperate copies of the legOS tree, one for each RCX.  This
was so they could have different LNP ids.  Is there an easier way around this?
It seems that when you compile a user program in needs to link against a symbol
map?  And this map can differ between builds, and you need differnet bulds to
assign different LNP ids.  In any case I thought this should be something we
could address in the build process, or as some have suggested make a way for to
change the RCX lnp address outside of the kernel compile stage.

Also the release change notes mentioned adding support for third party
sensors.  I've written LegOS user space drivers for a couple 3rd party sensors
i've purchached.  If there is interest I could polish them up for possible
inclusion.

The senors I've written drivers for are:

swmux - techno-stuff.com, this sensor has nine states, driver makes it easier
to decode
dirpd - techno-stuff.com, simple translation (left, right, center, none, error)
active mux - mindsensors.com, complex driver for active multiplexor.  I've
mentioned this before, and will shut up about it now :)

mark



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  Re: Proposals, Bug Fixes, etc and tracking them with SourceForge
 
(...) Thanks for reading it. (...) I'll need time to play with this. It seems to me this is not the first time this has been mentioned in this news group. Has anybody thought of using the downloader as a means for setting the RCX id? Seems to me it (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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  Re: Proposals, Bug Fixes, etc and tracking them with SourceForge
 
This looks good so far Stephen. I agree with the time-to-release remarks (although I love to dive in to new code 8-) Also, I like the idea of not updating to a new compiler (as I just got this machine setup and the compiler working well). I am (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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