-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Werner Almesberger wrote: |> Andy Green wrote: |>> One of the happiest things I saw on GTA02 was Debian. I think it is |>> great that folks are learning and driving things their own way with |>> multiple distros instead of "Openmoko Windows XP" only. Over time |>> they'll converge on the better stuff. |> Oh, I'm very happy about a diverse user space as well. |> |> It just scares me if they're diverging on the basic system interfaces. |> I wonder if we can do better than shrug it off as an inevitable |> consequence of using many different languages and IPC mechanisms. | | Personally I don't think we can simply shrug it off. My feeling is that | some of the different images do represent true diversity and reflect | the vision that excited me about Openmoko. But another set of them | merely reflect the intense frustration of the community with the | perceived slow progress and the unexpected shifts in the | Openmoko-developed userspace.
That does seem to be the case both ways. | Some wiki topics that might help out could include the correct and | supported ways to: | | - read and interpret battery and charging status | - power on/off, reset, and initialize the GSM | - handle the wifi interface during suspend/resume | - deal with USB gadgetfs | - correctly signal low-battery to the user | | etc. Sure, ideally the OM distro should be the reference implementation for these and it wouldn't hurt to document how they work. | By-the-way, along with this, it would be nice if we also documented the | "standard" kernel config that all distros should try to match. I can | understand why there might be divergence in needs in early development, | but it sure would be nice if we could all have the same kernel. Or if I What do you have in mind for "documented", over the defconfigs provided in the git tree? | am permitted to dream, wouldn't it be even better if we had a single | master ipkg repo for kernel and kernel modules, and all distros used that? One day if we're lucky we'll have RPM-based distros like Fedora too or some other packaging. But I guess you are right and many distros would prefer to not have to deal with the kernel, and should be able to re-use an "official" package if for no other reason than making their life easier. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjlMCcACgkQOjLpvpq7dMolYwCfQ7JgSXec6nHHo6UEPzmoUVyg XiUAmwa4NE8V/Q/js9sGSZFEI2hmVk/0 =c2Od -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
