Eclipse integration/Known issues prefinal

Revision as of 10:30, 10 September 2009

More detailed known issues lists can be found from Garage projects for each product https://garage.maemo.org/.

Fremantle devices are not officially supported as devices do not exist (publicly) yet but most unofficial Fremantle packages are already available from Fremantle extras-devel repository

Maemo SDK ARMEL rootstrap is meant to be used only for cross-compiling and it does not support running or debugging applications
Diablo 4.1.2 device requires kernel patch from here http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php to be flashed to the Tablet for USB Networking to work with Windows host PC
Diablo 4.1.2 device requires hildon-desktop patch to be installed to the Tablet from pc-connectivity Garage repository (see instructions from here http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/beta1/installation.html) for VNC client to work on host PC

While debugging Python application automatic termination of debugged program does not work when debugging session ends
Automatic installation of OProfiling support to the Maemo device may cause Eclipse to crash if Eclipse cannot find OProfile packages from configured repositories. Add repository

   deb http://repository.maemo.org/ diablo/tools free

to the Maemo device and run "sudo apt-get update" manually as workaround.

Some of the templates and examples provided by ESBox are not yet ported to Fremantle
Installation wizard for SDK Virtual Image on Mac OS X will not work properly (manual installation of SDK Virtual Image is recommended for Mac OS X users)

N900 device support with Fremantle is more limited on functionality point of view than N800/N810 device support with Diablo
- N900 will not support USB host mode
- N900 will not support IP Forwarding (iptable NAT kernel modules)
  - workaround is to rebuild Fremantle kernel with NAT enabled and hack kernel symbols for NAT kernel modules
- N900 will not support BlueTooth connections simultaneously with WLAN connections
- N900 will not support USB connectivity switching between "PC Suite" and "Mass Storage" modes with platform default applet (applet provided by PC Connectivity works fine)
  - workaround is to plug-out and plug-in USB cable between mode changes
- Fremantle platform does not have libicd-dummy package available until final release and thus user can not navigate to Internet through the browser using USB and BlueTooth. He/she will be able to navigate only using WLAN (standard behavior)
  - workaround final PC Connectivity release will have libicd-dummy package
Configuring connectivity to work between Maemo device and host PC after installation is still partly manual work on host PC side for all supported operating systems
When creating a project and setting SBRSH as download method quite often errors like "sbrsh server: fuse: bad mount point " and "sbrsh server: Can't mount to point:" happens. As a workaround you need to restart SBRSHD (on Maemo device side) and restart ESBox (on host PC side)

NetworkManager is being started after Scratchbox, so the resolv.conf file used by Scratchbox may be invalid which causes network problems

Flasher-3.5 beta tool may have problems in some Windows host PC configurations to flash eMMC images properly. Workaround is to retry with another USB port in host PC or use Linux/Mac for eMMC flashing

Some publically available test suites (for Eclipse components and NFS mounts, for example) are run on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X during integration testing but frameworks and test sets are not yet ready to be published

Test results (for unit tests and integration tests) for official releases are not yet ready to be published together with products

Feedback can be sent to eclipse-integration@maemo.org

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 ** N900 will not support USB host mode
 ** N900 will not support IP Forwarding (iptable NAT kernel modules)
-** N900 will not support Bluetooth connections simultaneously with WLAN connections
+*** workaround is to rebuild Fremantle kernel with NAT enabled and hack kernel symbols for NAT kernel modules
-** N900 will not support
+** N900 will not support BlueTooth connections simultaneously with WLAN connections
+** N900 will not support USB connectivity switching between "PC Suite" and "Mass Storage" modes with platform default applet (applet provided by PC Connectivity works fine)
+*** workaround is to plug-out and plug-in USB cable between mode changes
+** Fremantle platform does not have libicd-dummy package available until final release and thus user can not navigate to Internet through the browser using USB and BlueTooth. He/she will be able to navigate only using WLAN (standard behavior)
+*** workaround final PC Connectivity release will have libicd-dummy package
 * Configuring connectivity to work between Maemo device and host PC after installation is still partly manual work on host PC side for all supported operating systems
 * When creating a project and setting SBRSH as download method quite often errors like "sbrsh server: fuse: bad mount point " and "sbrsh server: Can't mount to point:" happens. As a workaround you need to restart SBRSHD (on Maemo device side) and restart ESBox (on host PC side)