On 3/6/14, 7:07 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi
On 05.03.2014 22:32, JOSE MANUEL CANTERA FONSECA wrote:
You can buy the Alcatel One Touch. It works for us (Gaia developers)
The Alcatel One Touch is not well suited for platform development. I'd
suggest to get an old Nexus 4 phone. It's fast an mostly Open Source.
Best regards
Thomas
Could you please explain this in more detail? Is this an observation or
mozilla policy?
The phone seems excellent for app development from certified to web apps
(once upgraded to FxOS 1.2). (Well the hardware is flaky, which makes
writing robust code that much more interesting, but the system works for
fastboot and adb connections, flashing, transferring, tethering, and,
most critically, live debugging from Firefox Nightly so there is nothing
wrong with the phone itself.)
I have not yet gotten into Gaia development so I don't know about the
phone at that level though most of Gaia is apps. Similarly, I know
nothing of the Gecko port.
At the Gonk level, I have learned that the build is (silently) fake,
skipping the kernel, but I have not gotten any clear explanation for why
this might be (nor have I found yet the skipping mechanism itself).
Could you explain what you know about this situation? From outside
mozilla, it is very puzzling since the phone hardware seems perfectly
well suited to the task. Is this simply because Mozilla is not being
paid any longer to support the phone? Is there some chip level
difficulty? Has mozilla never actually built full functional binaries
for this device? How does not having a build mesh with the call from B.
Eich and A. Gal recently to develop a way to have bitwise verifiable
builds for devices?
If you yourself do not know the answers to these questions, would you
know of someone else at Mozilla who would be technically able and
institutionally allowed to issue some statement on this situation?
thank you,
~adrian
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