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Raseel. On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 Asit Vad= havkar wrote : >FYI >http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3= 421076804.html > >cheers >- Asit > = >On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:27:32 +0530, Rajesh Rajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED] om> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > >Thank= s for showin interest, I dont have practical knowledge about how to &= gt; > >alter the kernel for Nokia but I have good knowledge about wha= t features > > >are available in particular phone(Nokia), wh= at OS it has and what are its > > >limitations also how we c= an enhance it. I know what kind of hardware is > > >required= for transffering stuff to Cell (not MMS n Tones it uses different &g= t; > >Cable). I suppose if few enthusiasts show inetrest in this we c= an give it > > >a try and I'm sure we can do it as nothings = impossible. > > > > IAAESP (I am an embedded softwa= re programmer). > > > > I admire your enthusiasm. I= t will be well placed if you have some > > background in develo= ping kernels for RTOS, etc. Not even writing > > applications o= n RTOS is enough to get into the kernel of such a beast leave > &g= t; aside knowing just the feature set. You may have seriously underestimate= d > > the effort involved in such an endeavour. > > > > That aside, the practical problem for such a project is ge tting the > > hardware information of the cell phone in questio= n. Just knowing the > > processor is not enough, you need to kn= ow the memory map, the peripherals > > connected, etc. For conn= ectivity you wil need to know the protocols, etc. > > >= ; > Nokia is not encouraging anyone to develop any software for it's pho= nes > > which use the Nokia OS (apart from using J2ME). You can develop C++ > > applications for Series 60 phones which use th= e Symbian OS but all the > > interesting APIs are not available= . The OS abstracts all the details of the > > hardware and no h= ardware info is actually available for any Nokia phone > > AFAI= K. Replacing the OS on such phones is going to be VERY difficult if not = > > impossible. You can find technical info for any Nokia phone in= the > > developer section of the website. > > = > > If you want to play around with cell phones, the Motorola Linu= x phone seems > > to be the best bet since all the info will li= kely be available. > > > > All the best in your ven= ture. > > > > Regards, > > Rajesh = > > > > > > > > > >= ; -- > > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/m= ailman/listinfo/linuxers Raseel Bhagat [1] [www.rediff=] References 1. 3D"http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp"-- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
