Hi all, So far as I have seen, MediaTek "releasing" things for their wearables platform, LinkIt. Not anything specifically for building operating systems or kernels or something. But however some of the people at the OmniROM project are doing amazing work on MediaTek chips. Check the following for more.
[1] https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/q/topic:mt6589,n,z [2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2676086 On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/6/14, 7:06 AM, Fabrice Desré wrote: > >> On 11/06/2014 12:39 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> a year ago, I briefly looked at this, but didn't make much progress. The >>> problem AFAIR was that there was almost no Open Source support for the >>> MediaTek chipsets. That made porting very hard; not to mention building >>> from the b2g repositories. >>> >> >> The situation is a bit better now since the Android one devices are Mtk >> based. The kernel for instance is available at >> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/mediatek/ >> >> Fabrice >> >> > At XDA Conf last month, MTK had a spokesperson talking about all the > improvements they're trying to make to be more open source > friendly/compliant. They're still early in that process but committed to a > more open future and working with the XDA and other communities to grow > open source participation in MTK chipset devices. I think they understand > that they have a bad reputation in this area and have realized they need to > change. > > - A > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > -- Aniruddha Adhikary (@tuxboy)
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