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Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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Date: 
Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:31:03 GMT
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Hi,

1 - 5. Dr. Hoenicke's patches (
http://hoenicke.ath.cx/rcx/brickOS.html ),
including gcc33, highmem, performance, Makefile, and tcpcomm

The second, "experimental" version of the performance patch (which adds
CONF_DSENSOR_FAST) also works well with the following patches.

I had worked to assimilate those patches prior to the second version of the
performance patch being posted, so I'm glad to hear that it also works well.


That reminds me that there's some fairly trivial code duplication between
dll and firmdl.  It's not very important, but I'll try to do something
about it soon.

When I went back through to add TCP support to other things, that "similar
but different code" made things a little more difficult.  There are more
things that could use the addition of TCP support, including xsLisp.  I
think a nice enhancement to the TCP ir-server would be to give it the same
"--tty" interface options as dll and firmdl--i.e., directly with a serial
tower, USB tower, or another TCP ir-server.  This, for example, would enable
a "real" brick and a BrickEmu instance to communicate with each other.

Anyway, the short of it is that, yes, I think a merged communication library
would be very useful.

By the way, I don't know if you monitor the NQC newsgroup, but I submitted a
patch to add TCP support to NQC....


- RE: BrickOS and Bibo
Personally, my feeling is that Bibo improves upon BrickOS and will provide a
better foundation moving forward, and I say that as one who has spent some
time incorporating a number of patches into the latest BrickOS.  I'm not
sure yet how much effort will be involved in working back through them to
apply them to Bibo (I'm thinking in particular of patches 7 - 16), but I
think it would ultimately be worth the effort.  Of course, a few of the
patches to BrickOS may not even be relevant in Bibo, but I would at least be
interested in having the LDCC, LNP printf, and LNP communication utility
functionality in Bibo.


Thanks,
Matthew



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