I don't understand the 'we have to extract Gonk from the device' part. Why can't I build and flash the whole thing (gonk & gaia)? Like I've been doing with the Unagi.
Is this about binary blobs again? Our build scripts extract those as part of the build, no? Sorry if I sound like a noob but I have not looked at any of this in a while :-/ S. ----- Original Message ----- > Maybe someone else has a better idea? :) > > On May 21, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Naoki Hirata <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't know the answer to the second question currently. Being in QA, > > it's my tendency to worry about things of the future as it could be a > > roadblock. > > I guess we'll find out the hard way… There's only so much we can do if we > > don't have the necessary gonk changes [ if/when we need them ]. > > GonkIntegration bugs would give you an idea of what type of things we do > > have the chance of running into. > > > > A suggestion would be to create open source drivers so that we could make > > the whole tablet open sourced… so we don't need to rely on the vendor for > > gonk support. > > I doubt that's a feasible suggestion though; thought I'd ask anyhow. :) > > Otherwise I'd need to think about it more… :| > > > > Regards, > > Naoki > > > > On May 21, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 5/21/14, 11:32 AM, Naoki Hirata wrote: > >>> Thanks Asa. > >>> > >>> Do you know if we're going to get images from the vendor themselves? > >>> I'm asking because I think if they update the gonk, we might not get it > >>> since we have to extract the gonk from the device… > >>> I could be wrong. > >> > >> I don't think we are. Last I heard, we'll get no help from the vendor and > >> it's up to us to figure out how to manage without. That's not what I'd > >> thought when launching the program, but that's where we are. > >> > >> Suggestions? How long can we get away just flashing Gaia and Gecko before > >> we're likely to need Gonk changes? > >> > >> - A > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-b2g mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-b2g mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
