Thread: Nokia, its time to release driver specs!! Open the drivers!!
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zeebra is offline zeebra
2012-05-28 , 15:19
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#30
Originally Posted by misiak View Post
As far as I'm concerned, even binary kernel modules containing drivers for e.g. gfx chip (and other stuff that doesn't have open drivers), but built against newer kernel (by the company that manufactures these chips), would be better then nothing, as it would allow usage of newer kerel as base. This thread is quite pointless, but - just out of curiosity - did that or something similar happen in the past (for any device)?
Even this would be somewhat acceptable.
Problem ofcourse is that everything is overly interdependent in Maemo, and the most interdependent parts are secret.

What I would like is to be able to build very customer kernels myself, from newer base. For example 2.38 kernel has a big important performance change.

The "Powerkernel" is still restricted to being the same version kernel as the one shipped, right?

I mean, I will not cry if you say that it's me that is too stupid to build my own kernel, but current status sure does not make it easier.
Last edited by zeebra; 2012-05-28 at 15:23.
 

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