Can't stop the signal.

As part of the Power Developer developer’s program, I received from Genesi one of their amazing Efika MX nettops. Other people have already posted about the unboxing process (for example darkside or brunocardoso), but I still want to throw a few screenshots to show it.

Efika booting

Recently there were big improvements made to the EFL on ARM platforms, but even without those optimizations and running on a 1680×1050 screen, E17 is running perfectly fine. Here are a couple of screenshots I made (the second one was taken with a camera phone, so it’s slightly worse to look at, I’ll try to put a video showing how well it’s performing on youtube later):

One of the initial versions of the Efenniht theme, with the obligatory Flame/Penguins/Snow modules enabled

Latest Efenniht version, with the Everything module on the center

I’m going to setup daily builds of the EFL running on it (plus weekly Ubuntu packages) so that it can help out stabilizing the arm port. The static analysis runs with clang of the EFL code that I’ve been doing are now on a new location, and I’ll also be running them directly from the Efika.

I’ll soon update the blog with more cool stuff I’ll be doing here (got an OE build for it about half done), but for now I just want to thank the folks at Genesi for this opportunity, and I’m eagerly waiting to try out the Aura firmware they are working on.

Clang’s static analyzer (description and more detailed information about setting it up here and here) is an wonderful tool that helps catching some nasty bugs and that has not been widely divulged so far. Lately we’ve been using it to help debug the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), and I decided to post this just to help other people try it out.

In order to use it, basically one just needs to get both llvm and clang (preferably from svn, since these tools are being updated all the time) and install them somewhere on the PATH, and afterwards use the scan-build script to build the application/library you want to analyze. The output is a nice set of html files, with the reported bugs divided by type and with detailed information + commented source code.

I’m trying to maintain updated reports on the EFL here, using a really simple script that I made to compile some of the most important libraries, apart from E itself. The script is also available on the same URL, in case someone wants an easy way of trying this out.