Hello Mr. Custer & Monsieur Fabrice! 

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:53:51 PM UTC+8, Adrian Custer wrote:
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> There is lots of community work going on around Firefox OS and that 
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> could well be brought together into a community umbrella project. This 
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> is very much needed so as to concentrate our efforts, to provide a 
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> single reference point for the various efforts, and to address the needs 
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> of the community which are so low in the Mozilla priorities. There is 
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> lots of work going on in South America already so bringing that into a 
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> common project would be doable.
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What Monsieur Fabrice said; I'm eager to get to know them too. 


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> As far as x86 is concerned, are you aware that the new geeksphone is 
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> running on an Intel chip? That should provide the starting point for 
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> your work once (and if) they release the source for that port. I 
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> suspect, without basis, that Intel may have some resources behind the 
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> port as well since they are trying intensely to gain a foothold in the 
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> mobile device space, so there may be help for your effort. Certainly 
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> Geeksphone will be behind the x86 port. The phone has not yet shipped 
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> but I suspect binaries will eventually be available on
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>    https://downloads.geeksphone.com/ (with a bad certificate)
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> or
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>    http://downloads.geeksphone.com/ (unsecure)
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> although I am not sure where the source code of the port will live. That 
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> work, if available, would surely be a place to start since it will be a 
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> working port to x86.
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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:
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> I'm looking for someone to work a piece of that as part of the google
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> summer of code:
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> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode14#Firefox_OS_.2F_Boot2Gecko
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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:
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> I suspect the x86 build from geeksphone to be based on android-x86,
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> which is likely not what we want to reuse on laptops/desktop. All the
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> HAL will be different and unsupported on non-mobile hardware. I don't
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> think this will be a Gonk build at all, but either a "usual" linux build
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> or once we land Oleg's work a build based on that widget implementation.
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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
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