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Pros: Its large form factor, excellent connectivity options and strong battery stand it in good stead
Cons: Terrible build quality and a screen that isn’t built for mobile use ruin what could have been a solid Android tablet

There’s little doubt that Toshiba planned a full frontal assault on the Apple iPad with its 10.1” Android 2.2-powered Folio 100 tablet. While offering similar dimensions and aesthetics, the Folio undercuts Apple by more than £100, making it both the largest and cheapest fully featured tablet in its niche.

As well as presenting the Folio as a cheaper, large-form-factor alternative, Toshiba has added a few technical tweaks to appeal to customers who might be ill-content with the iPad’s rather lacking connectivity options and video capabilities. For example, the Folio boasts two USB ports (one full-size and one mini), an SDHC memory card slot, a 1.3MP webcam for video chat and a full-sized HDMI port for full 1080p video output to a HDTV. The impressive video capabilities come courtesy of Nvidia’s Tegra 250 Mobile Web Processor which shares the 512MB of DDR2 RAM system memory.

The power of the Tegra processor definitely pulls the Folio ahead of the competition in terms of overall video capability, though the modified video application Toshiba offers is currently rather buggy (the DLNA aspect promising to throw video to a compatible player simply wouldn’t work, for example) so actual performance is yet to live up to the hardware’s promise, which is a real shame.

The USB ports can be used in tandem with Toshiba’s custom-fit file management application to expand storage and share files on the move, which is a massive boon for users who want straightforward access to their multimedia and office documents. The latter is catered for with Dataviz Documents To Go, which can be used to edit files, but the capability to create new documents is only available once the application is purchased.

Elsewhere in the software bundle, Toshiba has included fring for video chat via the user-facing 1.3MP camera, Opera Mobile for web browsing (alongside Toshiba’s own browser – neither of which sadly features pinch and zoom), eBook reading via FBReader, and a Service Station for updates alongside Toshiba’s own custom Market Place. The former is a welcome edition, though the latter is rather sadly underpopulated and makes for a woefully inadequate alternative to the Android Market, which is inexplicably left out of the mix. Yes, this means no Google Maps or Navigation.

These software inadequacies – also including a lack of out-of-the-box Flash support – are worrisome, but determined users can still download most of their software from external sources. Regardless of this, the software shortfalls of the Folio pale in comparison to those of its build quality.

It’s clear Toshiba had to compromise to achieve the Folio 100’s impressive £350 price point, but it has gone too far, utterly hamstringing its tablet in the process. For example, the rear face of the device is made of one the cheapest plastics we’ve ever encountered. Suffice it to say, there’s little hope of the USB and HDMI protective cover lasting the course either. Neither problem is worth a second thought next to the utterly abominable viewing angles on offer, though. For a device that’s designed to be moved around and used in non-traditional circumstances we’re not sure Toshiba could have picked a less suitable panel. Half an inch off dead centre either vertically or horizontally and all decent colour is immediately washed out. Such a shame.

Verdict: 2/5
It doesn’t matter that the Folio has one of the longest-lasting batteries in its field (easily capable of a full day’s work with capacity to spare for movies and music). It doesn’t matter either that Toshiba’s software package is one of the more complete on offer or that its Android 2.2 GUI tweaks are fairly usable (when it decides to work properly). With such terrible build quality and a screen that’s next to useless for the mobile segment, we’d suspect that anyone who has a chance to go hands-on before purchase would miraculously find the extra money to buy a Galaxy Tab – or, God forbid, an iPad.

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We’re now free of the Big Kernel Lock (in many configurations – it’s a config option that will hide other not-yet-compatible options when used) and I have been running systems BKL-free for some time now. Arnd Bergman and others have done an excellent job to rid us of this last vestige of truly ancient non-scalable Linux and unless you need a V4L (Video-4-Linux – TV tuner, webcam etc) device, you can probably run BKL-free today too. It is hoped that V4L will be fixed soon, maybe in time for 2.6.37. You probably won’t notice a huge performance benefit of running without the BKL unless you happen to have something more high end than a desktop, but it’s still pretty cool to know that you could get higher performance if only you could afford to have a system with dozens of CPUs to take advantage of it.

Scalability is great on the high end, but another more impressive feature for those working with more down-to-earth systems is (at last) near-complete support for running as a Xen ‘Dom0’ (or host kernel) under the Xen hypervisor. For years, the support for Xen host kernels lived in patches separate from the mainline kernel and had to be added separately. This constrained which Xen kernels could be used and made life more difficult for those using it in their virtualisation setups. It’s not (yet) possible to fully run an official Linus kernel without any patches as a Dom0 host kernel, but the remaining extra driver pieces and other work should be complete in time for 2.6.38. This incidentally prompted some folks in the Fedora kernel community to wonder about scheduling. They would like this to land in Fedora 15 (for those who want to use Xen instead of hardware-based KVM virtualisation) but are unwilling to accept large patches for things not yet in the official kernel (especially given historical experiences with having to maintain large patches for Xen). Only time can tell what will happen there.

Virtualisation also came up in the context of 3D graphics this month. Specifically, the idea is being floated that it might be time to implement a fully virtualised GPU (graphics processor) that provides a hybrid of OpenGL and DirectX to virtual machines, safely translating their operations on it into operations on the host GPU. Right now, there are some options for virtual machines to do 3D graphics, but they can involve more direct use of the host GPU, and this is not always safe against abuse, since graphics chips were never designed with such use cases in mind. Most of the current options involve hacks like giving each virtual machine its own GL context and trying hard not to allow guests to interfere with each other. But until the problem is solved nicely, various interim solutions such as virtio-gl do make sharing the host GPU a little easier to pull off in some kind of a clean fashion.

Google’s Android ‘suspend blockers’ code came up in discussion several times this month. These are a feature unique to Android wherein the Android kernel will attempt to suspend aggressively (in order to save as much power on the mobile embedded devices it has been designed primarily for use within) and driver code must explicitly request not to be suspended when necessary – for example, when in the middle of a phone call. The existing heavyweight Google solution was not liked by upstream developers, but several new alternative suggestions have started to bubble up and we might yet see something happen wherein a palatable solution can be found for enough developers to bring a generic Linux solution Android can also use in the future. There was more fun from Google in the way of nifty kernel features – look for coverage in my write-up of the 2010 Linux Plumbers Conference, also in this issue.
Finally, it looks as if those of us in embedded Linux space are finally headed in a similar direction to those in the enterprise Linux space by declaring certain releases of the upstream kernel to be ‘long term supported’ (LTS) for use in various projects (and products). Sony, Google, and the MeeGo and Linaro projects have gotten behind an effort spearheaded by Tim Bird, who is a Sony employee and former head of the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (now part of the Linux Foundation) and who terms such supported versions to be ‘embedded flag’ releases. 2.6.35 is the first such kernel release.

Debugging regressions in the Intel graphics drivers
As one who has an interest in kernel development, I recently acquired a netbook intended solely to run the latest upstream kernels and distributions. The Eee PC model 1015PEM features a slightly more exciting revision to the Intel Atom processor (the Atom 470), Intel graphics and the SSD disk I shoehorned into the ‘non-user serviceable’ system after much yanking with screwdrivers. It runs Fedora Rawhide, the unstable work-in-progress distribution, and whatever kernel Linus (Torvalds) has just finished shoving out the door. In spite of all that apparently instability, it really doesn’t break horribly all that often.

Recently, I installed the 2.6.37-rc1 kernel on the netbook, only to find that the display was shifted about an inch (2.5cm) down, such that the top had a blank bar and the bottom was cut off. The display is a TFT panel attached to an Intel i915 within the Atom processor over a LVDS (low-voltage differential signalling) link. Modern displays built this century all implement the EDID specification, which is a protocol used by graphics chipsets like the i915 to read display geometry and colour information from a TFT panel or other screen device. EDID (one day maybe replaced by DisplayID) traditionally used several spare lines on a VGA connector to do I2C signalling and carried information like the ‘dotclock’ (maximum scan rate of a CRT) and manufacturer detail.

These days, we don’t worry about magnets and cathode rays, or the maximum speed at which we can drive them without them catching fire. Instead, we now deal in pixels and the maximum rate at which we can update them. But the display still needs to convey its mode (pixel resolution etc) capabilities to the graphics chipset, which needs to inform the driver, which needs to inform the kernel of the possible valid choices for mode to set. This was clearly not working correctly in my case, as reported by running the xrandr and other EDID parsing tools on my system. I knew there was a bug in the driver (i915) or a related part of the kernel GPU subsystem – as evidenced by the visual – but I didn’t have any idea where to look for this. Fortunately, Linux kernel engineers have a secret weapon in the fight against such
bugs: Git.
Far from being merely the kernel source code version control utility, Git can also be used to do many more advanced things, like tracking down bugs through binary bisection of code, repeating until a bad patch is found. In a bisection, Git will take a last known good kernel and produce a source tree that represents the halfway point between good and bad. Depending upon the results of a subsequent test build and boot, Git will then pick another halfway point, repeating until a single bad source code commit (patch) is found. This does require many kernel compiles/test boots, but it’s a good way to track down where a problem was introduced, and compile times are now fast enough as to make the entire exercise of building 10+ kernels doable in under an hour of effort. This is especially true when using a config made with ‘make localmodconfig’ to only build actually needed drivers.

Bisection really requires only three commands:

# git bisect start
# git bisect good
# git bisect bad

The first starts a bisection, the second marks the current point as good, and the third indicates a ‘bad’ kernel. A ‘git bisect reset’ resets back to the master or head of the Git tree from whence you started bisecting. Using this process, it became apparent that the bug I was seeing had been added in some cleanups to the i915 driver cacheing logic (which attempts to cache EDID data read from fixed panels like my netbook display that should not change). Unfortunately, that cleanup was incomplete, but with the aid of Git and a few resulting emails to the maintainer, a fix was soon in place. I really recommend you try out Git bisection sometime. Steven Rostedt even posted a script recently, called ktest.pl, that can be used to automate the process of running the build and boot tests, making bisection even easier to do than it already was, helping you nail down the next annoying bug.

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Pros: The chassis design is considerably more attractive and build quality is infinitely more solid than previous efforts. The NMJ, too, is a step in the right direction
Cons: The hardware on board hasn’t moved on for a while now, and the bundled Network Media Jukebox is far from faultless and no match for YAMJ jukeboxes

Popcorn Hour is a brand that has been carving a niche in the media playback and network streaming business since creator Syabas first coined the phrase Network Media Tank (NMT) with the release of the game-changing A-100. With the release of the A-200, the open source software-powered media player was really starting to make an impact on the burgeoning home cinema market and Popcorn Hour was fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in terms of incredible file format compatibility and usability.

The brains behind the latest Popcorn Hour are confident they’ve really nailed it with the A-210, which appears to have taken a lot of the criticism of their previous players on board and rectified more than a few old niggles. Of course, in the three-or-so years since the first Popcorn Hour first touched down, the landscape has changed quite considerably. Apple’s recently revamped Apple TV and D-Link’s Boxee Box (reviewed on pages 74-75) are just two examples of major players setting their sights on this fast-growing sector.

This being the case, Syabas has had to raised its game, but you only have to lift the A-210 out of the box to see how much trouble the company has gone to in fixing the first fundamental flaw of previous Popcorn Hour players. Gone is the cheap black plastic of the A-200 and the cheap, wonky buttons that plagued the C-200. The A-210’s chassis is sleek, sturdy and seriously attractive. The brushed metal finish won’t look out of place in any lounge or den, though it is small and unassuming enough to hide neatly away should you feel the need.

Stripped back to the core, the hardware on offer is still essentially the same as its most recent predecessor, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The backbone is already more than enough to take on the toughest 1080p challenger and (true to Popcorn Hour’s previous form) it will play just about any file or format you’d care to send its way. Connectivity too is well catered for – see ‘specs’ at the top of the page for a full breakdown.

Instead of beefing up the hardware and putting an unnecessary premium on the price, Syabas has made the right decision in concentrating on chassis design and software support. A sexy new look is one thing, but with the A?210 Syabas has also been able to do away with the noisy fan that featured in the A-200 – one of its biggest bugbears.

Of course, Popcorn Hour players are known for much more than flawless local playback and network streaming capabilities. With a hard drive fitted and a healthy dose of excellent open source software support, they’re also capable of handing BitTorrent downloads, Samba shares, Usenet, FTP access and internet TV streaming. To take things up a notch, users are being treated to a new front end with the world’s first native NMT jukebox software solution which has been specifically designed to prettify the Popcorn Hour’s previously dour front end.

It offers a more dynamic and visually appealing user experience with DVD sleeves, movie details and more being automatically scraped from the Internet Movie Database. While the A-210 is the first Popcorn Hour to feature the Network Media Jukebox (NMJ), Syabas  (in its unusually open fashion) has also included it in its most recent firmware update for A and C-200 customers.

To cut a long story short, however, as amazing as the Sigma processor is for video playback, it’s no general-purpose CPU, so it simply can’t conjure up a pretty front end in the manner to which home theatre enthusiasts are accustomed. This being the case, while the new Network Media Jukebox is certainly revolutionary, it’s no replacement for more dynamic solutions like the jukeboxes you can create from your computer with something like YAMJ (Yet Another Media Jukebox).

Verdict: 4/5
The Popcorn Hour A-210 offers a vast improvement over the cult A-200 NMT in terms of both build quality and looks. While the hardware under the hood is essentially the same, Popcorn Hour still deserve plaudits for managing to create a silent-running solution much more in tune with today’s aesthetic sensibilities.

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Along the way, we also had two huge flame wars, several major security holes (one of which had been around for many years) were fixed, and many regressions were tracked and squashed. But if the year had to be summarised in a word, that word would be scalability. 2010 saw work on almost every aspect of the kernel – from Nick Piggin’s VFS (virtual file system) scalability patches to Arnd Bergmann’s BKL (Big Kernel Lock) removal work, and countless other efforts in between. You will see that recurring theme in the following month-by-month summary. If you’d like to see some more figures to accompany this timeline, visit the Linux Foundation website (linuxfoundation.org). Their annual kernel report focuses on overall numbers, not on individual features as we do here.

January
The year began with the rc3 release of kernel 2.6.33. This was the first kernel since the major Enterprise Linux vendors had chosen to base their next products on 2.6.32. New patches posted for discussion (but not necessarily merging into the kernel) included Mel Gorman’s Memory Compaction patches that literally ‘defragment’ physical memory to allow for larger contiguous regions to be used in certain allocations where contiguousness is required, for example in DMA operations withindevice drivers.
January also saw a brief discussion around kernel mode setting. Since modern kernels increasingly include in-kernel support for setting up graphics modes, it isn’t necessary for user-space software like Xorg to do this heavy lifting now. But Linus Torvalds was in no rush to remove user-space support for mode setting entirely, preferring to wait several years until all the kinks are gone and nobody is left using an older incompatible distribution.

February
February saw the release of 2.6.33. The new kernel included support for the reverse-engineered Nvidia driver (Nouveau) and the Data Replicated Block Device (DRBD), which apparently is now even in use on the kernel.org servers for replicating out content. Linus, who was growing increasingly unhappy with developers posting patches late in the ‘merge window’ (the period of time in which features are allowed into a new release) began making noises about reducing the merge window for 2.6.34, even closing it randomly in order to force good behaviour of posting patches early. This is a threat he did actually partially carry out in the following month.
The first nasty security hole of 2010 reared its ugly head in February. A problem was discovered in the kernel’s compatibility code for running a 32-bit distribution ‘user space’ on a 64-bit kernel. The exploit involved 32-bit code attempting (and failing) to run 64-bit code, which confused the kernel enough that it could be abused into causing a panic (crash).

March
March saw the closing (early, as threatened… then partially relaxed as Linus admitted he was “too much of a softie”) of the 2.6.34 merge window. New features that were accepted included Rafael J Wysocki’s excellent work on ‘asynchronous suspend and resume’, allowing the kernel to optimise the process of shutting down unused devices and the time taken for suspend. There was also a massive flame war around the merging of an incompatible set of patches for the Nouveau driver. Nouveau had previously been shipping (as a separate patch) in Fedora for some time. Linus was still very unhappy it hadn’t been merged sooner and blew a fuse when a patch that would have required distribution updates to Fedora 12 (which were not forthcoming as work was happening in the more experimental ‘rawhide’ area of Fedora) in order to test landed in Nouveau. Linus said, “I’m not going to release a kernel that I can’t test.” It got sorted out (not entirely cleanly) with special libraries built for Linus by Dave Airlie, the poor graphics subsystem maintainer.

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While our recent review highlighted why we thought Pardus 2011 could be one of the most exciting distro releases of the year, it wasn’t without faults. Thankfully, a good number of these shortcomings have already been rectified in the release candidate. Here’s the full list of updates and ammends as found on the official release announcement
* Better hardware support with latest Linux kernel: 2.6.37-rc8

* Users that have AMD and Nvidia graphics cards are now able to make selection between open source and vendor supported proprietary drivers during and after the installation

* Hungarian and Russian language support is added

* The network configuration utility called ‘network’ is ported to the new NetworkManager backend by one of our internship students Doruk Altan. So you will be able to configure your wired and wireless networks through the terminal

* Lots of bugfixes are included in installation (YALI) and configuration (manager family) applications of Pardus

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