Hello everybody, Wolfgang is back in town but fighting desperate battles to bring us better hardware. So, I try to give you the latest news about the current state of Openmokos engineering. I hope he and you like it. :-)
Mickey, Jan and Daniel (all part the FSO team) came to Taipeh in order to discuss the next steps of the Openmoko distribution, FSO APIs, FSO integration and a presentation about the current state of the FSO reference implementation. As a result of the talks the following was decided: - Openmoko is going to fund freesmartphone.org and treat it as a complement to freedesktop.org. FSO defines an API which makes it easier to develop applications on top of it and provides a reference implementation. - Openmoko understands that an open API which is available for as many platforms as possible is extremely valuable for the community and Openmoko itself. We can have competition on top of that API or underneath but we share that very API which makes all sorts of application interoperable. - One of the major features in the next Openmoko software release (Om2009) will be "FSO-compliant". Meaning that software that builds upon the FSO APIs will be able to run on the next major release. - As freesmartphone.org is not for Openmoko only but also for all other mobile devices feel invited to join the development on freesmartphone.org. - The Openmoko distribution will move closer to Openembedded upstream. Our engineers were merging the Openmoko branches with the OE branches. That process is not totally complete yet but thats the main direction we are heading towards. Our distro team will publish detailed information soon. Until now Openmoko was focussing on building their own packages and offered a community upload portal. The shortcomings of this approach in mind we reorganized the packages build structure. Openmoko will provide the an autobuilder which tries to build as many packages as possible and sync them with our download servers. Once your package is available in OE and is buildable everyone can easily install it. this approach should relief individual software developers of maintaining their own images and help them distributing the software. The autobuilder is work in progress - we keep you posted. As you may have noticed we hired some more kernel developers in order to stabilize the Openmoko platform and push our drivers into the mainline source tree. We have to get them into shape to get them accepted. Openmoko's goal is to enable everybody to download the vanilla kernel, compile it and boot the device. We know it's a long way to go. :-) Marek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
