On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:33:44PM +0100, Sebastian Mancke wrote: > Although it has a closed firmware, I found this announcement > http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-April/003575.html > with no replies on the maemo mailing list. Maybe someone who is faster > in than than me should try to get the driver working on his nokia770. > (The packages mentioned in the announcement do not work on current > maemo, because of the older EABI)
If you are a vendor, trying to build hardware that you have to provide support for, then the last thing you want to do is to use a chipset with software that 1) the software developers don't have hardware docs 2) the chipset manufacturer has no idea about your driver software and will not give the device manufacturer any docs either It's a complete nightmare where nobody can help you and provide any kind of acceptable support level. Thus, from a business standpoint, not bearable. Also, even if the free driver authors (prism54-softmac in this case) would really have reversed the chip up to the point there is barely nothing that they don't know about it, I still would definitely like to prefer generating business to a chipset manufacturer who understands the Linux community and provides GPL'd drivers and/or documentation. Cheers, -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
