On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Frantisek Dufka<duf...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Nicola Mfb wrote: >>> >>> With N900 we don't know yet but hopefully the bootloader will be u-boot. >> >> That's nice, the best would be if we'll be able to update/replace >> u-boot, and have a way to debrick the device if something goes wrong. > > u-boot is just my guess, any other choice does not look sane to me, but > still it can be a wrong guess. > > OMAP3 is designed to be unbrickable, it can boot from usb or serial or mmc > directly from its boot ROM, bootloader in flash is not needed. I'm not sure > how configurable is the priority list for booting (i.e. if it could be > locked to load bootloader only from NAND flash) but hopefully it will by > possible to bypass even the bootloader in NAND(u-boot or whatever). > > See also http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard#BootRom
Very nice!, that with free u-boot (we hope) may be perfect! >> May you elaborate please? wifi is exposed normally? > > In N900? Yes. N8x0 used own closed wireless stack and own closed wlan > driver. Wlan driver was opened later but it needs newer kernel which lacks > other stuff. See http://stlc45xx.garage.maemo.org > > N900 uses normal mac80211 kernel stack and the wl1251 driver is open source > too. Very nice too! > Also apart from Nokia being more open with N900 also TI is more open with > OMAP3 in general (unlike with OMAP2 based N8x0) so there is more information > available and bigger community overall. beagleboard.org community is quite > active > >> Again about that, are applications able to full use opengl >> acceleration without using closed userspace libraries? > > Not now. Looks like PowerVR's business model is currently not open source > friendly :-) Maybe someone will write open alternative in future? > http://forum.openhandhelds.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=341 Not so nice :(, I hope we have at least an X11 full 2D/XVideo accelerated driver right? >> Finally, it may be nice if Nokia may donate some devices to FSO and >> OpenEmbedded core team, any interest/chance about that? > > We don't know yet about N900 device developer program but it may be useful > to join maemo.org community right now and become a karma hunter ;-) For > previous program check > http://flors.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/n810-maemo-device-program/ > http://flors.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/rewarding-community-contributors/ > Also having application in Fremantle extras-devel repository might be a good > idea :-) I'll begin digging in that ;) Frantisek, thanks for you detailed and gentle answer, now I miss only the "audio" alsa/dsp part if possible. Best Regards Nicola _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
