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Stskeeps 2009-02-03 10:23

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 261732)
Nice. What would be useful in addition to this is to get linkable object file (.o) implementing the charging procedure.

That's one thing - or people can implement open source hald-addon-bme for instance :)

luca 2009-02-03 14:22

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 261730)
Currently the only closed critical part is battery charging.

Wifi and sound are working fine?
(this is genuine curiosity, last I heard the open wifi driver wasn't completely functional and couldn't work alongside the dsp)

fatalsaint 2009-02-03 15:06

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Wireless works.. although I have troubles using network-manager that comes default with this install.. it disconnects after 10-15 minutes and won't ever reconnect to my network. If I configure it manually (using wpa_supplicant & dhcpd) it will stay connected all day. Don't know why.

Sound I don't know...

solca 2009-02-03 15:34

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty12 (Post 261727)
You're getting too excited if you think any company that wants to sell devices releases their schematics officially.

Niagara, Freerunner, OLPC2, etc.?

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty12 (Post 261727)
BTW, I searched for the schematics on the G1 and can't find any "official" schematics on the T-Mobile site, nor HTC's one.

Exactly, G1 is closed, remember?

Quote:

Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 261730)
Huh? Fortunately you already proved yourself wrong by messing with Mer and newer kernels ;-)

:eek: Please! do us a favor then and compile for us a useable latest kernel (2.6.29-rc3) and if DPS, sound, GPS, bluetooth, WiFi, cpufreq, production mode, CPU retention and probably many other things _works_ in Maemo, Mer, whatever: you are done, you prove me wrong.

Don't you really get it, the real message, do you? Repeat after me:

"The _only_ working kernel for current Nokia Internet Tablets is the 2.6.21 Nokia production release".

God now that I want that people prove me wrong on this, really...

I started working on fixing this situation, very slowly but progressing as far as a self-motivated non-expert could, but really, at least I decided to work for the common good.

Now that a real expert like you step up to the plate I'm glad I can finally RIP. ;)

fanoush 2009-02-03 16:31

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by solca (Post 261779)
Don't you really get it, the real message, do you? Repeat after me:

"The _only_ working kernel for current Nokia Internet Tablets is the 2.6.21 Nokia production release".

Currently true but that does not mean we are stuck with 2.6.21 forever.

Any piece of HW will get old, G1 or N810, there is no difference. IMO the N810 is open enough. Support for new stuff on N810 will gradually fade due to loss of interest, not because the HW is closed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by solca (Post 261779)
I started working on fixing this situation, very slowly but progressing as far as a self-motivated non-expert could, but really, at least I decided to work for the common good.

You are doing great job.

Quote:

Originally Posted by solca (Post 261779)
Now that a real expert like you step up to the plate I'm glad I can finally RIP. ;)

Sorry to disappoint you ;)

solca 2009-02-03 20:44

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 261805)
Currently true but that does not mean we are stuck with 2.6.21 forever.

Really, based on factual evidence?

Quote:

Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 261805)
Any piece of HW will get old, G1 or N810, there is no difference. IMO the N810 is open enough. Support for new stuff on N810 will gradually fade due to loss of interest, not because the HW is closed.

Huh... Interest is high, it just seems ppl here believe that some old drivers' source code means open HW, good luck porting those drivers without documentation.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fanoush (Post 261805)
Sorry to disappoint you ;)

No prob, talk is cheap ;)

PS. @Maemo councils: Ask Nokia to put 1 day all Linux engineers in a coding sprint to fix support for 770/N8x0 in recent kernels, that would be a good service to the community IMO.

Stskeeps 2009-02-03 20:55

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
http://bsd.tspre.org/~stskeeps/mer-contacts.png

Contacts-hildon on Mer. :)

http://bsd.tspre.org/~stskeeps/dates-hildon2.png

dates-hildon on Mer.

qole 2009-02-03 22:04

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by solca (Post 261864)
@Maemo councils: Ask Nokia to put 1 day all Linux engineers in a coding sprint to fix support for 770/N8x0 in recent kernels, that would be a good service to the community IMO.

Yes please. I believe this to be a big key to the future success of the current hardware. If we can't get recent kernels fully working on the tablets, projects like Mer will never really reach their full potential.

daperl 2009-02-03 22:41

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by solca (Post 261779)
"The _only_ working kernel for current Nokia Internet Tablets is the 2.6.21 Nokia production release".

God now that I want that people prove me wrong on this, really...

I started working on fixing this situation, very slowly but progressing as far as a self-motivated non-expert could, but really, at least I decided to work for the common good.

Now that a real expert like you step up to the plate I'm glad I can finally RIP. ;)

This is all that I'm working on at the moment. I plan on being successful, but worst case I should have some very good notes. More as I know.

daperl 2009-02-03 22:45

Re: Mer v0.7 release, and community firmware contents discussion
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by solca (Post 261864)
PS. @Maemo councils: Ask Nokia to put 1 day all Linux engineers in a coding sprint to fix support for 770/N8x0 in recent kernels, that would be a good service to the community IMO.

I'm taking the attitude that, "If Nokia won't do it, I will." Wish me luck; I'll call if I need some help, but I'm optimistic with my current plan. And just to be clear, I'm optimistic 'cause "Ignorance is bliss." :)


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