Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-24 Thread Rafael Campos
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Nils Faerber nils.faer...@kernelconcepts.de wrote: Werner Almesberger schrieb: Nils Faerber wrote: Wouldn't it be more fruitful to create a project that is only concerned about providing the best possible tools, hardware and software, for braking into and

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-22 Thread Werner Almesberger
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: For sure. When you guys get ready for the first build, I'll find a way to help. I'm open to donating some parts and time. This is a great project! Wonderful, thanks a lot ! Access to parts is probably the single most important condition for the success of this project.

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-21 Thread Werner Almesberger
Nils Faerber wrote: Wouldn't it be more fruitful to create a project that is only concerned about providing the best possible tools, hardware and software, for braking into and reverse engineering existing devices? There are already a number of projects that do exactly this, such as OpenEZX

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-21 Thread Brenda Wang
Wang ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/New-Life-in-Openmoko-Phones-tp2934354p2955538.html Sent from

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Max
Great news indeed! Are there plans to change uSD placeholder? Every single person I showed my phone to said that it's the most idiotic (that one of the most calm of used words :) design he\she ever saw. Personally I completely agree with that - making uSD unaccessible without disassembling half

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Nils Faerber wrote: I also know from experience that some parts are really nasty to get - either you do not get them at all or you have to buy large quantaties of them. Oh yes. You wouldn't believe just how often we had that sort of thing happen to Openmoko. I've learned to treat sourcing with

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Dave Ball
Max wrote: Are there plans to change uSD placeholder? No - changing uSD holder isn't part of the GTA02-core plans. In GTA02-core the intention is that the uSD card contains the full OS image including kernel. The NAND will only contain QI, and the expectation is that QI won't need to be

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Pander
Dave Ball wrote: Max wrote: Are there plans to change uSD placeholder? No - changing uSD holder isn't part of the GTA02-core plans. In GTA02-core the intention is that the uSD card contains the full OS image including kernel. The NAND will only contain QI, and the expectation is that

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Martin Bernreuther
Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 schrieb Dave Ball: No - changing uSD holder isn't part of the GTA02-core plans. In GTA02-core the intention is that the uSD card contains the full OS image including kernel. The NAND will only contain QI, and the expectation is that QI won't need to be

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Dave Ball
Martin Bernreuther wrote: One thought is that future phones should include two uSD cards - one 'internal' for OS/kernel etc. and one that is 'removable' for data storage/exchange - although this is out of scope for GTA02-core. s/should/could. Obviously there isn't any commitment to future

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Lee Grime
If you want any FPGA or CPLD work doing, I will do it. Been doing this kind of stuff since fuse blown devices with Palasm. (20 years!) Any glue logic, hardware acceleration, bus interfaces etc. If anyone has ideas about what we could put in a low powered CPLD/FPGA, please come forward, will

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Werner Almesberger wer...@openmoko.org wrote: Q3) What is role of OpenMoko organization now? Sell remaining GTA02s? As far as I know, Openmoko is selling GTA02s and, besides that, concentrating on the project B. Openmoko is friendly towards the gta02-core

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread joakim
Nils Faerber nils.faer...@kernelconcepts.de writes: Wolfgang Spraul schrieb: Today Openmoko released additional pieces of documentation about Freerunner hardware: board outline, footprints and netlist. Same as all other releases before - under Creative Commons Share-Alike license.

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
For me, I think you've hit the nail on the head. We're trying something new with gta02-core, and by working on the small changes we've proposed we can focus on the tools that we use, the organisation of individual contributors and the stages we need to go through to get functional hardware.

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: That still doesn't explain why removing one of the two accelerometers is a good idea. What is the benefit? Why not remove them both? Is it that all the programs that use the accelerometers (as of now) only use one of the two? I

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Joseph Reeves
The wiki says: # Remove one accelerometer and connect both interrupts of the remaining one Is connecting both interrupts of the remaining one an expected benefit? Do both current accelerometers only have one interrupt connected? What does that even mean? Cheers, Joseph 2009/5/19 Rui Miguel

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Werner Almesberger
Nils Faerber wrote: This would be one of the details I am interested in, i.e. would OpenMoko Inc. help in making (read as producing) this new design? With its part stock, manufacturing capabilities, etc.? Access to components is currently under discussion, yes. There are at least some

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread joakim
Nils Faerber nils.faer...@kernelconcepts.de writes: He ;) Many of the parts in the GTA02 cannot be reasonably placed by hand. There are almost a dozen (or more?) BGA chips which are extremely hard to handle (you do not see if the balls match the pads). Then there are almost microscopic

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Werner Almesberger
Ron K. Jeffries wrote: Q1) So, OpenMoko has not committed to building the 10-20 protos? No, and Openmoko wasn't actually asked for such a commitment, as it would not fit with the current focus of Openmoko. If Openmoko or some other company might be interested at some point in time to produce

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 19.05.2009 at 17:02:52 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: That still doesn't explain why removing one of the two accelerometers is a good idea. What is the benefit? Why not remove them both? Is

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Tue, 19.05.2009 at 17:02:52 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: That still doesn't explain why removing one of the two accelerometers is a good idea. What

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: That still doesn't explain why removing one of the two accelerometers is a good idea. What is the benefit? Why not remove them both? Is it that all the programs that use the accelerometers (as of now) only use one of the two?

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread GNUtoo
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 02:11 +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: That still doesn't explain why removing one of the two accelerometers is a good idea. What is the benefit? Why not remove them both? Is it that all the

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Ball
GNUtoo wrote: *will the sound quality be ok(is there a plan to correct the problematic capacitor that is between the sound card and the audio connector)? and will it fit into the same case than the GTA02...because if I understood well the sound problem can't or is too difficult to fix

New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Hi everybody, (sorry for the cross-posting, I thought spreading the word about gta02-core and new stuff from Openmoko was worth it...) Today Openmoko released additional pieces of documentation about Freerunner hardware: board outline, footprints and netlist. Same as all other releases before -

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread arne anka
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gta02-core sounds interesting. could someone add background information why parts change? removing the glamo seems pretty plausible, but why removing one of the accelerometers? audio amp? nor? ... ___ Openmoko community

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:20:13PM +0200, arne anka wrote: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gta02-core sounds interesting. could someone add background information why parts change? removing the glamo seems pretty plausible, but why removing one of the accelerometers? audio amp? nor? ... I

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 19.05.2009 at 01:01:43 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wolfg...@openmoko.com wrote: (sorry for the cross-posting, I thought spreading the word about gta02-core and new stuff from Openmoko was worth it...) much appreciated. I don't understand nor agree to all stated goals, however. If you

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Werner Almesberger
Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Today Openmoko released additional pieces of documentation about Freerunner hardware: board outline, footprints and netlist. This is great. Thanks a lot to you and everyone in Openmoko who has helped to make this happen ! With these files, we'll be able to make a

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
2009/5/18 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:20:13PM +0200, arne anka wrote: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gta02-core sounds interesting. could someone add background information why parts change? removing the glamo seems pretty plausible, but why removing one

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Ball
Werner Almesberger wrote: Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Today Openmoko released additional pieces of documentation about Freerunner hardware: board outline, footprints and netlist. This is great. Thanks a lot to you and everyone in Openmoko who has helped to make this happen ! Ack -

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 18 May 2009, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: I don't see why to remove one of the accelerometers and have added so to the Discussion tab. Is the second accelerometer genuinely useful? IIRC due to the small distance between the accels it can only be used to measure large angular

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Ball
David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: 2009/5/18 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:20:13PM +0200, arne anka wrote: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gta02-core sounds interesting. could someone add background information why parts change? removing

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Ball
Toni Mueller wrote: They chose a 100% GPL layout tool, KiCAD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicad), which uses only text-based files This sounds good, but you seem to require a certain minimum version of Kicad, right? Checking out from OM and running Lenny's Kicad produced