Got a few things planned for tomorrow:

Fix the maze plugin. It either freezes, causes stack overflows, or data aborts
Update the patch list. There's a patch that I haven't added to the list yet.
Update the patches. There's at least three patches that need to be updated.
Improve the build. Look though for things to make it better.
Change the way the download stats work. They should be accurate now, but I want to make sure.

I guess this is more of a note to self kind of thing, but it's what I hope to do tomorrow.

I'm cleaning out the computer, so I did "sleep 5m; rm -rf /" meaning I have 5 mins before this computer deletes everything. I should be back in about 30 mins or so.

Since I set up the new script to fetch downloads, Sun, 29 Jul 2007 at 10:05:16, there have been over 1000 (complete) build downloads. As of right now, there are 1144 total downloads, which is roughly 48 downloads per day. I might go through the script later today and make sure those numbers are right, but they should be rather close.

I would have posted this four minutes earlier if I didn't forget I changed the password for wordpress xD There's a patch for SDHC support, but nobody's tested it. In addition, there's a disclaimer:

Disclaimer: I've based this patch entirely on reading the SD specification version 2.00. It hasn't been tested on an e200 yet, so since it meddles with the disk access, if I've made a mistake somewhere it could lead to data loss both from the SD card and the e200's internal memory.

I'm going to see if I can get someone to test it, but should I add it to the build?

Well, turns out I'm now transferring two of my domains - both this one and nuclearscripting.com. While I didn't see it on the ICANN site, apparently domains can't be transferred if they expire within seven days, and one of his domains was transferring on the 25th. So, I used my Paypal to renew his domain, and now I'm getting both of these transferred. I don't think there'll be any downtime, but I'm thinking of adding a third mirror (I have five domains at the moment) and maybe modding the database to allow me to have the blog on all three domains (I'm still deciding which other one to use)

There's another update to the custom user splash screen patch (FS#7538) that I'll be updating to shortly.

There seems to be in issue in my build with the fonts in the WPS resetting after going to the Graphical EQ. I'm doing some testing right now to see if I can find the issue, but Charles said he'd send me a diff file to fix it. (Thanks Charles)

I just finished updating the Custom User Splash Screen patch (FS#7538) which allows any bmp filename to be used for the splash screen.

Sometime earlier today barrywardell managed to get USB sending to work:

14.51.11 # * barrywardell thinks that he has figured out the usb send problem
14.51.30 # <barrywardell> it was the ibss: we were sending ok, but just sending zeroes!
[...]
16.25.17 # <dionoea> austriancoder: so you have a native rockbox USB stack working now ?
16.25.54 # <austriancoder> dionoea: almost... msc driver is not ready... and some cleanups are needed

I'm sure it won't be long before we have USB support now.

I was just corrected in IRC - the MSC driver is one of the biggest parts, and since nobody knows what the ETA could be, it could be "a while" before it works.

Originally, the build auto update was done by having an email sent to a special email address, which would directly run the update script. However, the update script was being run on the mail server, which caused quite a few problems (delayed mail, as well as slow build times). After a while, I had set it up to have the mail server SSH to the real server, and execute the update script there, except SSH kept having the connection reset. So now, I believe I finally have a way to get it working. The mail server now executes 'wget --spider http://nuclearscripting.com/other/sansa/update1.php', which is a PHP script that does the SSH'ing. This seems to be working, as I noticed a few minutes ago that the time of the last update was a few hours ago. I'll be keeping an eye on it anyway to make sure it's running properly though.

While I will allow users to access the script, please do not abuse it. I'm going to try to add as many safeguards as I can to prevent problems, but if I find that I need to, I will have it limit access to only the mail server.

About an hour or so ago I updated the custom user splash screen patch (FS#7538) which now has no delay for those who only want to use the original.

I also decided to test the USB patch. The patch isn't on the tracker, but you can find information on the USB software stack at http://christian-gmeiner.info/soc. A patch file's also there, but for most people, they won't really need it. I have a build at http://nuclearscripting.com/other/sansa/build/build/download.zip which has the patch, though for most people, it won't be too important at the moment. The patch creates a menu in Settings | General Settings called USB stack, with settings for "USB Stack Mode", and "Not Done Yet!", which I believe is supposed to be "Device Driver". "USB Stack Mode" contains the options "Automatic", "Device", and "Host". There are no options for "Device Driver", but since it says "Not Done Yet!", it's probably still being coded. Connecting it to my computer did cause dmesg to output some stuff (see below) but did not appear in lsusb, though since it is still a work in progress, it's kind of expected. The computer did not detect it being disconnected either. GSoC ends at the end of this month, so it's possible we could have USB support by then, otherwise by sometime in September. Either way, it's coming.

Also, the freezes that were occuring yesterday in plugins are gone. I'm not sure what the cause was, but I haven't noticed a freeze at all today.

dmesg:
[775932.220630] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 33
[775933.331740] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775938.543567] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775938.759389] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 34
[775939.870591] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775945.082305] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775945.298136] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 35
[775950.701782] usb 4-7: device not accepting address 35, error -71
[775950.813722] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 36
[775956.217358] usb 4-7: device not accepting address 36, error -71

-Jack