User:PaulBoddie

Stuff I hope to work on:

• Investigating floating point support for numpy (nice for pygame.surfarray, for example)
  • Adding UCLIBC_HAS_FENV allows numpy to be built, but importing it causes a segmentation fault
    • Some on-device debugging with gdb may be required: Python and numpy need to be compiled with debugging enabled
    • Alternatively, I may have forgotten to deploy any modified uClibc package
    • Architecture-specific work may be required
    • Some workarounds might be sufficient
  • eglibc might offer a solution, although this obviously requires toolchain changes and the rebuild of a number of packages
    • Testing in a chroot indicates that numpy and pygame.surfarray work when eglibc is used
    • However, pygame/SDL doesn't release the framebuffer upon exit due to an error: libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work (Launchpad bugs #1027665 (gcc), #40285 (gcc) and #971064 (cbuild/Linaro toolchain))
      • Pound-related discussion
      • Sourceware bug #4457 mentions the glibc mechanism for configuring the library filename, although this isn't the problem here
    • The OpenWrt trunk build of eglibc doesn't seem to work: toolchain/eglibc/Makefile happily puts trunk into its configuration but doesn't tell eglibc, so it then seems to invent its own identifier (so-version) in libc/Makeconfig that the installation operation of base-packages isn't aware of
• Experimenting with small-screen user interfaces
  • Here, pygame and Cairo with SVG support might be interesting, requiring pycairo and python-rsvg (provided by the python-gnome-desktop package)
    • The third example doesn't need numpy, although the mainloop at the end should be fixed to something that does something sensible
• Tidying up the documentation on this Wiki:
  • Consolidate boot-related stuff on Bootloader, Updating Ben with usbboot, USB BOOT mode, Updating Ben NanoNote software, Reflash_ben.sh, Unbrick
    • Canonical USB boot invocation instructions might go on USB BOOT mode, removing them from Updating Ben with usbboot
    • Updating Ben with usbboot claims that it's better to boot from SD card, whereas Updating Ben NanoNote software contradicts this to an extent
    • Unbrick duplicates a lot of the USB BOOT mode information
  • Consolidate development-related stuff on Ben NanoNote Software Status, Building Software Image, Porting programs
  • Add some notes about deploying new packages and integrating them into the upstream images
  • Perhaps update Applications and How to contribute