Endurance Technology Contributions

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by in udlfb

Endurance Technology, a software consulting company in the UK who has done previous work on DisplayLink devices, has contributed back a branch of work done on the Fall 2009-era DisplayLink kernel framebuffer (udlfb) and X driver (xf86-video-displaylink).

The goal of their project was to get an embedded platform working on Centos 5.3. You can read more in their release note for the work.

To make the contributions easier to diff, they’ve been checked into a git branch from a (best guess) of the code Endurance started from.

The changes are available here for the kernel driver and here for the X server.

To actually build it, you may need their full package.

It’s unclear what of these changes might get picked up, as things have moved on since. One of the main features of this code is providing a default EDID blob in udlfb. The plan for udlfb at this point is to allow the edid sysfs interface of udlfb to be written to, to allow (and give responsibility) to a user-mode entity to supply a default edid, if one isn’t available from hardware.

Thanks again to Endurance for being diligent about contributing changes back.

Google Summer of Code Work Kicks Off

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by in udlfb

Today is the kickoff of coding work for Google SoC 2010 projects.

We’re very excited about the Google funded project to refine USB multiseat on Linux, with the winning proposal from Lucas Nascimento Ferreira at the Federal University of Parana in Brazil.

In addition to providing mentoring, Plugable is also providing donated hardware for this project. Two Plugable Universal Docking stations with recent enhancements for use as a terminal, were just picked up by Lucas in Brazil today. By next month, we expect to have updated versions of the UGA-125-HUB for terminal use to send down.

For those interested in learning more and potentially following Lucas’ work:

And we’ll post periodic status updates here.

Windows, Mac, Linux, and Information Overload

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by in Windows

Our philosophy is to support all three of Windows, Mac, and Linux for all of Plugable’s hardware products, to the greatest degree possible. And when there are limits (as there often are) we try to tell you about them up front.

We do this because we know you use a mix of machines, or may be thinking about switching one way or another. And when you invest in a collection of USB devices, you want them to be useful beyond your current computer. That’s what we expect, too.

All this activity can get a little noisy, though. A little too much information.

That’ll be especially true for some exciting but technically involved work that’s happening over the next few months on Linux with the Google Summer of Code project for USB multiseat, which makes use of some of our Plugable hardware.

So if you’re interested in just one platform or another, here is a way to get just the news that you care about, and get rid of the rest of the noise:

And for those wanting an even more customized view — just append /feed to the tail end of any category view on the site, to get an even more specific feed, if you’re interested.

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