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coiley:
Observation: Rockbox daily builds seldom refer to Sansa e200 v1 (Portal Player PP5024) much these days. Most Sansa e200 series daily build updates refer to Sansa v2 (AMS - Austria Microsystems AS3525).

Hypotheses: (1) Sansa e200 v1 series specific (PP5025) development is mature and (mostly) retired;  Sansa e200 v1 updates are general and cosmetic. (2) Sansa e200 v2 (AMS) is in active development.

Question: Are these hypotheses accurate?

-coiley

Chronon:
Developers are still actively learning the best ways to interact with the hardware on the AMS models.  This is quite a standard situation. 

There's nothing wrong with a mature, supported player.  My F40 is still my favorite.  Changes can happen any time that someone identifies a bug in a driver or a potential optimization.  Do you think that active changes in hardware drivers is intrinsically a desirable situation for some reason?  Rockbox is a lot more than just a collection of drivers.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: coiley on July 07, 2009, 08:54:05 PM ---Question: Are these hypotheses accurate?

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And what's the point with those hypotheses? I still heavily use my Ipod Mini and really like the h100 series. Both get almost never mentioned in current svn activity, but they still work fine and still get fixes and new features.

Besides, the "daily builds" don't refer to any players at all except for naming the player the binary is built for. And what does this have to do with hardware?

AlexP:
Most of Rockbox applies to all the players.  So when someone says "Fix x" or "Implement y" without mentioning a player, it usually applies to all players.  Older ports tend to have generally working drivers, so they don't change.  Newer ports don't have working drivers, so thay get updated.  A driver is for specific hardware, so that hardware gets mentioned.

Think your PC - when there is a general update then it doesn't mention all the possible hardware it can run on.  Firefox 3.5 didn't list that it runs on specific processors.  When the specific driver for a specific network card gets updated, it mentions what card it is for.

coiley:
Thank you all for verifying my hypotheses:

Fact: (1a) Sansa e200 v1 (PP5024/5) series SPECIFIC development is mature and (MOSTLY) retired. Hardware support is mature and robust. (You developers are amazing!)

Fact: (1b) Sansa e200 v1 updates are now mostly general and cosmetic. The updates are not hardware specific. (Did I mention that the developers are amazing!)

The question was not in any way a criticism. It was a project status request.

Thanks again,
-- coiley

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