It's been a while since last software release, during past days, a lot of effort has been put on bring up OSD 'production' hardware and integrate 2.6.15 kernel. As you may know, 'production' hardware again will be updated from 32MB SDRAM/8MB FLASH to 64MB/16MB, but I believe the amount of effort to support that should be trivial.

So, version 3.01-0.04 should be our solid grow base.

With help from China team and developers from all over the world, this release has fixed several things of the BSP and integrated the lasted Codec releases, the main application now has playback and recording support. Although as a normal user/developer you won't care, many production/factory support has been built in too.

Overall, this version is more stable and has more functionality than original version that comes with the developer unit, however as stated in the release note (attached below), there are still many known issues than those listed, many of which will be resolved in the coming release in about 2 weeks. To just name a few of them, in next release,
- IR learning and IR blaster should work.
- Hard-coded framerate will be removed.
- Memory stick will added back.
- USB host should resurrect.
- Built in console support will be included.

To access this release, for developers, please look for TAG: OSD_VER_3.01-0.04_060718. Binaries/README notes are attached

Here is the release note,

2006-07-18 OSD 3.01-0.04
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[WHAT'S NEW]

- 2.6.15 kernel
- Binutils, GDB/GCC, Busybox updates
- Full IR code, hold/repeat IR button support
- JFFS2 support to manage parameters
- I2C in u-boot to provide Mac/SN support
- RTC support
- Timed recording template support
- Video input source (s-video, composite) support
- Davicom Ethernet support
- MP4/ASF/AVI/WMV video playback, MP3/WMA/OGG/AAC/AC3
audio playback
- MP4/ASF/AVI video record, MP3 audio record support
- LED to indicate power connection, yeah!

[WHAT'S FIXED]

- everything new is a fix so far ;-)

[KNOWN ISSUES]

- USB host not working
- CF card works only if inserted before system boots
- Memrory stick support is disabled
- Recording framerate is hard-coded to low number(<10), higher
framerate crashes OSD
- Divx, G726 codec not supported
- IR learning/blaster does not work yet (HW verified though)
- PAL output not supported yet, hard-coded to NTSC now
- Too many to continue here...