On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:29 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> wrote > Hi, > > Am 04.01.2016 um 19:03 schrieb Dr. Michael Lauer <[email protected]>: > >> >>> Am 04.01.2016 um 16:51 schrieb Adam Van Ymeren <[email protected]>: >>> >>> This doesn't excite me at all to be honest. >>> >>> We already have the Neo900. What's the difference between the phone >>> you're proposing and any other flagship phone out there like the Nexus >>> 6p. You said you won't release the PCB, and it's got a proprietary >>> Maui GPU. So already I can't run it with only free software, and if >>> you don't release the PCB, I can't be confident that the cell modem is >>> actually switched off when I ask it to be and doesn't have DMA to the >>> system RAM. >>> >>> I'm much more interested in a so called "low end" phone. >> >> ACK. >> >> And honestly I think this is a niche where OSS on mobile still can flourish – >> IMO in the high end area the game is over. > > I disagree. At least if software is addressed. Is the game for OSS and Linux > on the PC over? Was it ever over? > > IMHO, we only have problems getting reasonably open high-end hardware > to make OSS flourish. Which is what this discussion is trying to address. > > But in addition there is apparently a need for a low-end device. So should > it end up in two designs? Ideally compatible to a big extent so that there is > no need for two complete software stacks which needs two teams of > volunteers...
I'm not sure it's so much that we need two designs for "low-end" and "high-end". Better specs are always nicer, but I think the most important thing is that each successive design that comes out of this community should be more free than the last one. A design that uses a GPU requiring blobs and doesn't release the PCB layout is a step backwards and not something that would interest me and I wouldn't support such a project since I feel it harms the progress that the GTA04 has made. > > BR, > Nikolaus > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > http://www.openphoenux.org _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.openphoenux.org
