AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

AOSP with the SODP on XA2 Ultra!

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Alright! Well, the first build of AOSP using the SODP on the XA2 Ultra are out! For those who are caught in acronym paralysis, that is the Android Open Source Project built using the Sony Open Devices Project. I used the SODP material to …

Homemade Bluetooth Auto-start Still Trucking!

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Well, after a year of service, thousands of miles, and a full fall, winter, spring, and summer, my home made Bluetooth auto-start is still trucking! It's been really convenient as the weather once again turns cold to pull out my phone, press start, and hear my truck fire up!

There …

Chirp - programming a HAM radio

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While this tool isn't new for most HAM's, it was new for me. It's called CHIRP, and it is a programmer for your radio. More or less, it allows you to input channels, change settings, and download/upload content to your radio …

error: implicit declaration of function 'INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE'

While working on the nightmare governor for the Xperia XA2 Ultra (sdm660), I ran into this error:

/home/alaskalinuxuser/aokp_pie/kernel/sony/sdm660/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_nightmare.c:714:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(&this_nightmare_cpuinfo->work, do_nightmare_timer);
^
/home/alaskalinuxuser/aokp_pie/kernel/sony/sdm660/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_nightmare …

error: use of undeclared identifier 'pm_idle'

Lately I've been going through the Xperia XA2 Ultra kernel (sdm660) and trying to add new features. Today I was adding in some governors, and several of them had the same underlying issues. Part of the problem was that I got the governors from a 3.10 kernel and put …

Picked up two more badges from CompTIA!

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Well, I'm not 100% sure how valuable they are, but I picked up a few more CompTIA badges recently. I've been going through the CompTIA certifications to renew some that I had, and to pick up some new ones. All told, this …