Thread: Nokia, its time to release driver specs!! Open the drivers!!
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misiak is offline misiak
2012-05-25 , 07:45
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#3
Originally Posted by zeebra View Post
Nokia is now a legacy device, not a current hardware platform. Its about time Nokia release the firmware and drivers as open source and bring these into mainline kernel.

Give the N900 users the freedom to use their device as they want. Complete freedom, not almost freedom
Some drivers are intelectual ownership of other companies, so Nokia cannot release them (maybe even they don't have complete sources of all drivers). However, I would vote for our Council (who won the election? Estel?) to try to contact these companies and ask them if they could release some sources maybe (or tech specs or anything)p if this has not happened yet in the past.

Originally Posted by zeebra View Post
And just hurry up releasing n950 for general public with GRUB dual boot maemo and meego with desktop choice between default and plasma active
Just for the record: GRUB supports x86/x86_64 architectures only (i.e. computers which are able to run desktop version of Windows, if a device is not able to run that => it won't run GRUB). It's UBOOT that you want (this one is for embedded systems and also works on e.g. Nokia N900).
 

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