Hello Mr. Custer & Monsieur Fabrice!
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:53:51 PM UTC+8, Adrian Custer wrote: > > There is lots of community work going on around Firefox OS and that > > could well be brought together into a community umbrella project. This > > is very much needed so as to concentrate our efforts, to provide a > > single reference point for the various efforts, and to address the needs > > of the community which are so low in the Mozilla priorities. There is > > lots of work going on in South America already so bringing that into a > > common project would be doable. > What Monsieur Fabrice said; I'm eager to get to know them too. > > As far as x86 is concerned, are you aware that the new geeksphone is > > running on an Intel chip? That should provide the starting point for > > your work once (and if) they release the source for that port. I > > suspect, without basis, that Intel may have some resources behind the > > port as well since they are trying intensely to gain a foothold in the > > mobile device space, so there may be help for your effort. Certainly > > Geeksphone will be behind the x86 port. The phone has not yet shipped > > but I suspect binaries will eventually be available on > > https://downloads.geeksphone.com/ (with a bad certificate) > > or > > http://downloads.geeksphone.com/ (unsecure) > > although I am not sure where the source code of the port will live. That > > work, if available, would surely be a place to start since it will be a > > working port to x86. > At the moment I'm trying to contact Intel to seek some help, but no I wasn't aware that Geeksphone runs on x86. On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 12:08:27 AM UTC+8, Fabrice Desré wrote: > > I'm looking for someone to work a piece of that as part of the google > > summer of code: > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode14#Firefox_OS_.2F_Boot2Gecko > Ah, that's delightful news. However I'm not currently a student so I'm not sure that I qualify. Anyhow, I'll try to document my efforts clearly which would help the person working with you to jump right in. I hope... On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 12:13:01 AM UTC+8, Fabrice Desré wrote: > > I suspect the x86 build from geeksphone to be based on android-x86, > > which is likely not what we want to reuse on laptops/desktop. All the > > HAL will be different and unsupported on non-mobile hardware. I don't > > think this will be a Gonk build at all, but either a "usual" linux build > > or once we land Oleg's work a build based on that widget implementation. > I guess I'll just ask Geeksphone what they're using, and maybe they could lend a hand with this project as well. Thanks everyone for sharing! Cheers, Hugh _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
