Hello Carlos and Markku
this is pretty cool :-)
Have a look at Markku’s notes (http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Os2007On770)
if you are interested in the gory details. He’ll be updating these notes
as he continues to work on this.
Quite interesting reading. Found some of those bits about initfs and
kernel too.
An image will be available soon for download and flashing, to 770 users
only.
I guess including some sources - kernel at least (I am interested and
maybe could even help) or all modified packages.
After that, Maemo developers with a 770 and a bit of time on their hands
are encouraged to check it out.
I will and definitely try to help if possible. Few questions/ideas:
Did you try to leave old kernel from 2.2006 and backport changes needed
(if any) from rx-34 kernel? Seems easier than using rx-34 kernel
directly (arch/arm/omap1/ is outdated). What newer kernel gives us?
Same for initfs, what does break, dsme,bme? Thanks for the toolchain
name, I had to build static version of evkey for bootmenu since I
couldn't find correct uclibc toolchain. there is 'We used rx-34-initfs
from apt-repository as a base' where is this, something internal?
We will work on this still for some time though it is hard to say how
long. It will also depend on how this is received. It might be that we
can get more of the DSP and Multimedia to work, or maybe not.
Could leaving old kernel, dspgateway, dsp_dld and all n770 codecs help
with this? Updated gstreamer could be nice, though. Maybe some fixes in
newer gst dsp plugins to make it work with older DSP stuff can make this
possible?
We can’t justify doing much work on this hybrid, our development focus
is really on the N800. However, if we manage to make further progress we
will release updated images. We’ll look at any patches that people in
the Maemo community might turn up and consider applying them and
releasing new images. We can’t promise we will do a good job there but
let’s see what we can manage.
Well I think community can (in theory) keep working on this and continue
as long as is needed. What is not clear is how far we can go without
those few but important closed bits (initfs - dsme/bme, config partition
format, cal-tool etc., dsp stuff) and implications they have on the rest.
This is again, something new for us, and we hope to learn something in
the process.
Yes, at least it can be another push to opensource something needed for
this or reveal how far we can go without it. I am pleasantly surprised
by the progress so far.
Best regards,
Frantisek
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