few new things I see on linux-omap kernel community

After a long while of staying off linux-omap, been watching it rather closely recently.. here are some interesting stuff I saw this month:

• Power Management: Operating points and general PM strategy for handling for various silicons here
  
• Silicon Feature support for OMAP3 here
  
• New silicon support: OMAP35xx and 36xx support being introduced.
• Discussion on memory and cache issue here
• ETM, ETM support here
• few new PMIC - 6030 and 5031
• hints of wl1251 support getting upstream
• IO_ADDRESS is dead use io_remap like the rest of the world
• spring cleaning of omap850/730 series
  

and of course a bunch of stuff I have missed posting here such as move to 2.6.32-rc4 by Tony and Kevin, both pushing out patches to mainline etc.....

some interesting posts

High time I "ported" my posts from facebook back here..so here it goes
Some really bad code stories:

• shared by rob clark - how bad can some code go??

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Shenanigans-Handler.aspx

• Aint this cool:

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/09/horrifically-bad-software-demos-become-performance-art.ars

Techno Curios:

• Tired of fullspeed, highspeed, lowspeed?? how about superspeed?? tired of acronymns already??

http://www.pcworld.com/article/172757/wheres_usb_30.html

• Search for my cheap oscilloscope goes on:

http://www.micahcarrick.com/06-06-2006/pc-sound-card-oscilloscope-linux.html
http://www.fpga4fun.com/digitalscope.html

Hacks 'nd bytes:

• PS3 back with Hulu..

http://www.ypass.net/blog/2009/06/got-a-ps3-want-hulu-back-easy-enough/

timing diagrams

drawtime

This is kinda a cool app that runs on ubuntu to draw timing diagrams as follows:
Example(from the drawtime website):

CS1 = 1, OE = 1, ADDR = X, DATA = Z.

CS1 = 0, OE = 0, ADDR = "".
OE -tOE> DATA = "";
CS1 -tCS1> DATA;
ADDR -tACC> DATA.

OE = 1, CS1 = 1, ADDR = X.
CS1 -tH> DATA = Z;
OE -tH> DATA;
ADDR -tH> DATA.
and you can now generate all those cool waveforms without having to worry about did you get the lines right etc..

more such cool stuff here