Am 23.11.2014 um 17:05 schrieb Ryan de Laplante (personal) <[email protected]>:
> >>> I understand that you don't know exactly when, but maybe you can guess >>> roughly which quarter of 2015 it will be ready for order and delivery. Q1? >>> Q2? >> >> It's just a rough guess, but I'd say Q2. > > Ok, thank you. I'm really looking forward to buying one ASAP. > > >>> Also, the ReplicantOS project purposely does not provide proprietary wifi >>> and modem drivers. Maybe the Neo900 project can provide instructions for >>> those of us who want to use ReplicantOS with network capability. >> >> There's no need for proprietary drivers on Neo900 for either WiFi or >> modem. The only thing you need is a firmware blob for WiFi chipset >> (which is *not* executed on CPU), so the only thing you need to use it >> with Replicant is to put it into proper directory so the kernel can >> find it and upload to the chipset. >> >> Also, Goldelico Replicant images for GTA04 already include the WiFi >> firmware and in future should work with Neo900 as well. > > Great! Do you know which other features will not work on ReplicantOS + > Neo900 without a proprietary firmware blob or driver? The information > on this page related to the GTA04 worries me: > > http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus#Replicant-42 > > Maybe they could add a new row for Neo900 if the chips and status > information are different than the GTA04. The Replicant project has not enough capacity to work for the GTA04. So there is a separate “Replicant for GTA04”-Project where more things work than in official Replicant (but it is planned to integrate it): http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-replicant/issues/ BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.openphoenux.org
