i need help... badly..

[counterego]

uhmmm.. how do i start? well.. we have this project in school where we should research about OS architecture and Rockbox was assigned to me.. could anybody help? if you could just give me some info about rockbox.. like the cpu scheduling and all the sorts.. thank you..

[L]

Or you could just go read the wiki?

It is best you do proper read up first and come back to the forums with more specific questions.

It is really relatively hard to answer the kind of question you pose as we really do not exactly know what you want.

[counterego]

well.. we were asked to find out about its history, the whole of its architecture, cpu scheduling(fcfs,sjf,srtf/srjf), paging implementation, and security and network protocols if any.. id like to find info in the site but its down at the moment..

[Genre9mp3]

As already mentioned, you can find what you want in the wiki... but let me tell you that I'm jealous of your school!  

[Rincewind]

As already mentioned, you can find what you want in the wiki... but let me tell you that I'm jealous of your school!  

me too!

another good starting point would be the "tech.txt" document in the "docs" folder of the source tree. There is some basic (but old) information about how rockbox works on archos players.

If you finish your project, I would like to see your results. I tried to understand the low level rockbox architecture but didn't get it yet.

[counterego]

yey.. at last i found it on the wiki.. thanks.. i'll update you when i finish my project..

[Davide-NYC]

What school do you attend?

[counterego]

Central Philippine University from the philippines.. hey.. i didn't find this on the wiki could anybody help me:
1. how does rockbox handle deadlocks?
2. what is its process scheduling and process synchroniztion
3. its memory management
4. input and output systems
5. security and protection

thanks for the help...

[Bagder]

1. how does rockbox handle deadlocks?

Using cooperative multi-tasking, deadlocks are actually hard to achive! ;-) We don't do anything particular to handle them.

2. what is its process scheduling and process synchroniztion

We do cooperative multi-tasking, we don't have "process synchroniztion" really. Although we have mutexes and message queus for working in and outside of interrupts.

3. its memory management

We basically only have static fixed buffers, no dynamic memory allocation at all. The exception is that some parts of the system can "nick" parts of the audio buffer at startup as a form of "dynamic" memory.

4. input and output systems

What's the question? We have button, joystick, scrollweel, etc input and we have LCD output.

5. security and protection

Protection of what? Security on what sense?