Just to let you know, that IMHO the analysis and information you are
collecting are even more important than rewriting the proprietary
components. It helps both understanding the inner workings of the
system (what about writing a "Maemo 5 Internals" document for the
proprietary parts? :)) and help people interacting with these
components, customizing them (e.g. binary patching) or replacing them
when necessary.
Anyway, I appreciate reading these RE analysis, even though I'm not
actively using my N900 (now playing with N9). Maybe it could be added
to some wiki section as well?
Agreed, I am also immensely grateful for all the reverse-engineering
that goes on. One day I'll finally get around to reimplementing the
conversations and address books ;)
I also think the wiki is far more visible long-term than the mailing
list archive (though it's good to have it in more than one place), so
putting things there would be great. The mailing list is obviously far
better for drawing attention to it though (as is posting to TMO, as you
have been).
I'm not sure what would be the point of replacing the proprietary
WLAN bits.
1.Ability to support WiFi security mechanisms that the stock bits
dont support
2.Support for assigning higher priorities to different wireless
networks
(i.e. if you move into range of a higher-priority network than the
one you
are on, it will join to that)
Probably other things too.
The particular reason I briefly looked at this a while back was to be
able to have WiFi and cellular active at the same time without having to
run a hotspot application (i.e. the WiFi as a client to my existing
wireless network, not a new AP). In my case, I just wanted to be able to
SSH to my phone over WiFi whilst it was sharing it's cellular signal
over PC-Suite/Unix-mode USB. In the end I set the N900 up as a router
and switched to Windows-mode USB networking, but it would be nice and
much simpler to just use it as I originally intended (not to mention, I
can't seem to get PC-Suite mode to work again afterwards without a
reboot).
- Jamie
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