Nokia, its time to release driver specs!! Open the drivers!! - maemo.org

zeebra | # 1 | 2012-05-25, 07:18 | Report

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

Thanks for a great phone!

And just hurry up releasing n950 for general public with GRUB dual boot maemo and meego with desktop choice between default and plasma active

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Dragoss91 | # 2 | 2012-05-25, 07:22 | Report

Hope dies last .

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misiak | # 3 | 2012-05-25, 07:45 | Report

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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stickymick | # 4 | 2012-05-25, 08:35 | Report

The N900 uses the PowerVR SGX for it's graphics produced by Imagination Technologies, so they're the ones you should be yelling at.
And I'm guessing it'll be a cold day in Hell before they release the drivers.

However, a quick Bing revealed this:
Reverse Engineering PowerVR SGX

Seems a similar project to those that brought us the ATI Catalyst drivers and eqivalent nVidia versions, although it wasn't long before ATI and nVidia stepped in, paid the developers for their efforts and then closed them down.

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erendorn | # 5 | 2012-05-25, 09:00 | Report

Originally Posted by stickymick View Post

Seems a similar project to those that brought us the ATI Catalyst drivers and eqivalent nVidia versions, although it wasn't long before ATI and nVidia stepped in, paid the developers for their efforts and then closed them down.

The latest galium related commit is 7 hours old, and the latest nouveau related commit 26 hours old.. Did ATI and nVidia close these projects this morning? Or is that not what you are talking about at all?

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lma | # 6 | 2012-05-25, 09:03 | Report

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

Yeah, like they did for 770, N800 & N810 users. Friendly advise: don't hold your breath.

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timoph | # 7 | 2012-05-25, 09:18 | Report

again someone asking nokia to release code not owned by them... If you want drivers open sourced, figure out what hw is there and who's manufacturing the part in question and contact them. It's not up to Nokia.

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nieldk | # 8 | 2012-05-25, 11:02 | Report

Originally Posted by timoph View Post

again someone asking nokia to release code not owned by them... If you want drivers open sourced, figure out what hw is there and who's manufacturing the part in question and contact them. It's not up to Nokia.

+1
Allthough, in some cases it may (or may not) be possible (impossible) for Nokia to get in touch with certain third parties for releasing the source. Probably not, to my knowledge, but certainly Nokia would count a greater mandate than we (council).

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n-mi | # 9 | 2012-05-25, 12:10 | Report

AFAIK, the only smartphone which had full opensource drivers was the OpenMoko GTA1/2.

I'd like Nokia to be able to release full specs or source code, but it has been a long time I didn't believed in Santa Claus...

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Zoxir | # 10 | 2012-05-25, 12:15 | Report

Oh the 2012 Q2 "Nokia should give us the closed components of fremantle" thread I was wondering when would this come up.

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