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theom

If that's 'memory' in the smartphone sense (ie storage), find the USB drive on the iconbar, press the middle button over it, and click 'Free'. That should tell you how many GB you've used and how many are free.

theom

I had to do this recently at work (not for Arch or Pi, for something else). The issue is that ext2/3/4 filesystems cannot be properly built except using the Linux kernel to write them*. Writing them involves mounting them, and making something to mount requires the loopback device. So that means we ...

theom

If you want to emulate an SN76489 in all its gory details, ZeriBeep should do the trick.
(note that's in a PackDir archive - I think the read-only SparkFS on the Pi can open it)

It works natively in RISC OS, but I don't know if anyone has tested it on a Pi.

theom

I tried to update by using the RiscOS application manager. Is that not working? This is my fault. The RISC OS Open guys were under time pressure to get a new release out for the show last weekend, and the script that makes the packages failed. So the packages in the repository currently refer to an...

theom

CUPS doesn't run on RISC OS. While RISC OS can print to network printers, it's not really a server OS so isn't good at running this kind of sit-in-the-background service. There is a Samba server, but that's probably not going to help much. If not having CUPS is a showstopper, you could use 'brandy' ...

theom

The reason I omitted GCC from the PackMan distro is because on my extra-slow SD card installing it thrashed the SD for hours. I haven't had a chance to investigate why - it's worse than installing it with the Filer. Obviously it's small-file writes on the SD which are very slow, but something else i...

theom

There's no reason to drop to assembler for this. C will handle it just fine. And it's not that complex to write either. Historically, BASIC was people's primary 'scripting language' (if we can use the modern name), and C cost (lots of) money. BASIC comes with a builtin assembler, so if BASIC was ins...

theom

I don't quite follow what you're trying to do but, yes, the devices are memory mapped. In supervisor mode or interrupt mode you can peek the relevant address to read state from them. (Except for devices that need more complex protocols - like things on the end of I2C buses). File IO is another of th...

theom

I omitted to mention something else... You don't have to write a relocatable module as such... you can write an interrupt handler in assembler and do the rest from BASIC. However it's a bit messy. To do this, claim a block of memory from the RMA (using OS_Module 6). Assemble your interrupt service r...

theom

Try here:
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documen ... ity%20list
It says 'Cortex A8' but that's a more demanding criterion than Pi compatibility, so things on the list should also work on a Pi.

Feel free to add things to it (perhaps marked with Pi to be clear)

theom

So you want to use interrupts. Here's the top level overview. First, you need to be writing a relocatable module. The difficulty with code in application space (the area of memory that BASIC and normal compiled C programs run in, starting at &8000) is that applications are swapped in and out. So you...

theom

Indeed, it's worth having the conversation about how to design something first, which is something many users can take part in, before someone dives in and starts making changes. RISC OS doesn't have the luxury that Linux does that people can write substantial bodies of code and the merge people can...

theom

RISC OS folks and Linux folks mean different things when they talk about 'ARMv7'. ARM assembler is ARM assembler. It should run on any machine from a 1987 ARM2 up to the latest. There are, of course, some caveats. RISC OS on older ARMs (up to StrongARM) used '26 bit addressing'. This doesn't work on...

theom

If it freezes, do you find the ethernet lights go off? This is a symptom of power problems, or USB trouble. Have you tried measuring the voltage between TP1 and TP2?

theom

It's not there because nobody has written a wiki page for it yet... and you get the usual wiki response if you try and view that noexistent page :-| I don't think there's been any decision on whether it's been deprecated. According to a recent post on the ROOL forum, there was a bug in IIC_Control w...

theom

Looks like a bug to me. I started a thread:
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/4/topics/1540

theom

If it works, *SDIODevices will tell you what it actually is, rather than what's printed on the outside.

theom

You have several options: OS_IICOp = current, flexible, API for doing IIC IIC_Control = older, simpler, less flexible version of OS_IICOp GPIO_*I2C - GPIO using MCP23017 over I2C. GPIO_*I2C is a layer on top of IIC_Control/OS_IICOp, that issues the appropriate IIC commands for the MCP23017. If you h...

theom

I asked the author of the SD driver, and this is what he said: It's tricky to know what to suggest. FileCore does a lot more cross-checking of disc parameters and free space maps than is possible with FAT, so if the image has been incorrectly written, then it would produce the error "Disc not unders...

theom

Interrupts... have a read of chapter 1 of the PRM - on the Pi SD or PDF here: http://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Programmer's%20Reference%20Manuals You could set off a HAL timer interrupt to happen every ms, which you use to fill the sound buffer or toggle the GPIO. That's at a higher...

theom

On OS_IICOp v IIC_Control, I think you can still call IIC_Control but it isn't as powerful as OS_IICOp. For example, I'm not sure if IIC_Control knows about multiple IIC buses, and it can't do bulk transfers. But existing software should still work. For calling things from C I'd normally suggest usi...

theom

RISC OS is little endian. Sockets are BSD sockets, so the same as you're used to. One thing - if you're doing the multitasking yourself, blocking sockets will stall the whole machine so you need to set them non-blocking and poll the Wimp while you're waiting. If it's a command line program without a...

theom

Should be feasible... The UnixLib library that's part of gcc supports pthreads, but I suspect they won't be accurate enough. You can use the RTSupport module to run realtime things: http://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Software%20information:%20RTSupport What format is the sound in? Sou...

theom

Mike, you can upgrade from RC5 to RC6 using PackMan. Just do 'update lists' and 'upgrade all' and it should install the new ROM and firmware for you. It will replace your config.txt with a known-good version, so you might wish to edit it afterwards.

theom

Mike, there were some relatively late changes in RISC OS to support the different revisions of the RPi board where the I2C pins moved around - perhaps this was a cause. What revision are you using? I even have a set of those boards that you nicely soldered up from your Micro User article... but abou...

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