Got the Netwinder to change resolutions and run the xserver-fbdev without core dumping. Thats progress. (fbset -rgba 8,8,8,8)
Now if I could just find a decent monitor. My choices thus far are a fixed frequency 640x480 9" monochrome, a focus blown 13" color, and a NEC 3FGe which doesn't want to sync above 800x600 and loses the red gun sporadically.
I'm testing Debian ARM boot-floppies today. While watching the disks spin and the cursors blink I'm counting all the lines of code in Debian.
Good news! I found a flaw in the gcc code generation on the ARM port. There was a subtle bug significant interaction between the instruction and data cache references and the on chip buffers of the SDRAM. The ARM code has now sped up to the point that compiling code on the Netwinders is faster than on my K6-350.
The Debian RiscPC installer has slain its first tester. I've added new keymaps so they can use their keyboards without learning a new random layout. Wimps.
RiscPC people are coming out ot the woodwork! I'm building RiscPC installation images today. Heck, they may even WORK!
Babysitting three ARM machines building Debian. Seemed like a good time to sign up on advogato.org.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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