Userland Applications

Userland Applications
Since the Open2x base system (made by buildroot) is now working, work can commence on the userland components of the firmware. These are 'small' projects which are important, but not essential for the booting of the GP2X. Anybody who wishes to get involved with the Open2x project, but is daunted by the amount of effort required to even get small results in the base firmware work (though in my experience things like that tend to suddenly start to work perfectly after never having worked at all :D), may like to have a go at helping out with any of the following projects (of course, we are open to any suggestions). All help is gratefully received (that's not just some phrase I've stuck in there, we are really overstretched with only 3 active developers.

These can be treated as separate projects and are really no more tricky than a standard little tool you might write for the stock GPH firmware.

Projects

 * Program to put GP2X into 'sleep mode' (screen off, clock speed down, disable anything possible)
 * Fixing up gp2xmb (this will be adopted as the menu used in the Open2x firmware)
 * Configuration tools
 * Package manager needs rewriting from scratch to use Orkie's new package format
 * Tool to mount zip files as read-only using a FUSE-patched kernel and a zip driver or mi-arcfs