Hi,
I have a 64MB Cybook, and I have been reading the OpenInkpot IRC logs for the last half a year, hoping to see OI on my Cybook in the near future. In the summer, OI on the Cybook was progressing, and it was nearly working by the end of summer, but then the development stopped. As IRC logs say:
Code:
10:28 Rampant Too bad the version for cybooks's not ready yet
10:29 Rampant i sooo looking forward to it
10:29 LunohoD nobody is working on it
10:29 jekhor_ Rampant, nobody has time or pleasing for it
10:30 Rampant well, that's not very cheerful
10:30 jekhor_ *wish
10:31 Rampant i've read it part of the next milestone
10:31 LunohoD Rampant: we need more cybook developers
10:31 LunohoD ondra was our single cybook dev
10:31 Rampant gosh, if only i could code
10:32 Rampant so what you're saying is there will be no version for cybooks
10:32 LunohoD do you know how to clone people?
10:32 Rampant nope, sry
10:33 Rampant hell, i should have gone for hanlin, now im stuck with stupid cybook
10:33 LunohoD Rampant: if there are no developers - there will be no version
10:33 Rampant what happened to ondra, if u don't mind me asking
10:33 LunohoD I don't know, he is jsut disappeared.
10:34 Rampant :) ppl don't just disappear
10:35 LunohoD I think he is busy with his study
10:36 LunohoD he doesn't want to be forever student
10:36 Rampant how far is he with the cybook port, any idea
10:38 Rampant maybe i could help, what is it coded in? c++
10:38 LunohoD afaik, you can run OI and bookshelf is working, but the bookreader is not working - keybindings are not adapted for the cybook
10:38 LunohoD I've got no cybook or any other netronix clone, I cannot test it myself
10:38 LunohoD and the overall performance is lousy
So it looks like the OpenInkpot won't be made to work on the Cybook, or, if ever, it will only run on Cybooks with 512MB of memory.
Currently active OI developers would probably be satisfied with seeing it on V3, iLiad and possibly Sony, and overall are much more interested with seeing new programs on it (and more skilled in that area) than with fitting all this code and data into 16MB of Cybook memory.
Is there anything I can do to see OI on Cybook? I can't currently devote enough time to learning specifics of Linux and its kernel programming and behaviour of those particular chips the Cybook has, and electronics needed to take Cybook apart and get to the COM ports needed to program it. I would donate money if that would be likely to cause OI on Cybook development to progress.
I guess I just hope that something changes if I post that short summary here...