Thread: The EPIC N9 anticipation thread
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momcilo is offline momcilo
2011-06-16 , 19:02
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Originally Posted by N9Us View Post
i'd say linuxdrivers are not from hardwaremanufactor its community work.
There are only few companies like intel that really provide open source drivers.
Many manufactorors are far more open than providing open source drivers, they open interface specification. This allows community to develop drivers.
How about IBM?
Sony (well I don't count closing of device itself)?
AMD?
The list is extensive, I don't plan on grepping the whole linux source code to prove it.

Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
Show me any company that has fully open GFX drivers and is optimized for handset and usable. (That means not Intel)
True: 0, zero, none, null, nil.
I've commented before on this.

This thread is about latest devices. A part of anticipation is if nokia is going to pin us down with drivers to their distribution, so this is no off-topic.

Please, let's focus on finding out which parts are closed-sourced in the new devices?

So far we suspect:
- wifi
- gfx (already covered by many before, no new light there)
- modem
- bme
- disrupting-our-next-sense

Any other clues?
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Last edited by momcilo; 2011-06-16 at 19:11.