Re: Multiplexing SDIO? Re: How to connect Wifi to Samsung's S3C2410? Re: Congratulations to you and FIC
First sorry if my thoughts on this list starts confusion (again I'm not a hardware expert) but I like to encourage the Neo1973 team to find a desin of the Neo1973 that - has much memory - has the potential to upgrade the number of memory - has the chance for Wifi - and no bottle neck for Wifi or memory access The way I see it, the memory issue is mitigated somewhat by wifi access -- affordable city-wide wifi (e.g. Toronto) would mean that for most of my usage, I'd be happy to stream media or data as-required, from my home machine. In fact, in many cases, it would be preferable to stream/cache data rather than rely on the download-then-remember-to-delete paradigm. Yup - that would require additional development to deploy for the masses, but it could be simplified - assuming one end has a routable IP and a friendly server to negotiate the initial connection. Cheers, Richard ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Congratulations to you and FIC
Hello. On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:35, Giovanni Corriga wrote: Il giorno mar, 14/11/2006 alle 18.02 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz ha scritto: Thanks a lot for your comments. As to WiFi we couldn't find a vendor that would let us open the driver. The One Laptop per Child project is developing a free driver + firmware for the Marvell chip that will be used in the $100 Laptop. Maybe that code could be reused here. How free? NDA and a GPL'ed driver afterwards? Have you got a link for me about this? regards Stefan Schmidt signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Congratulations to you and FIC
Il giorno mar, 14/11/2006 alle 15.04 -0500, Richard Franks ha scritto: The One Laptop per Child project is developing a free driver + firmware for the Marvell chip that will be used in the $100 Laptop. Maybe that code could be reused here. How free? NDA and a GPL'ed driver afterwards? Have you got a link for me about this? Quotes selected from: http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/ [quotes snipped] I took my references from Jim Getty's blog: http://www.gettysfamily.org/wordpress/?p=27 Marvell is not in a position to open their wireless firmware as it is currently dependent on the third party operating system kernel that they do not own. A GPL Linux device driver for the Marvell wireless chip, the Libertas driver, still under development but also fully functional can be found in ourGIT tree. We are having open firmware for the Marvell wireless chip developed by Meraki. I don’t know yet what license that code will be released under, though would expect it would likely be one or more of the MIT, LGPL or GPL licenses; but we’ll have to think through the usage cases and needs of the communities involved before we can make that choice. This new firmware will be distributable by anyone to anyone in source or binary form. The existing closed firmware blob will be similarly redistributable as soon as we finish working with Marvell’s lawyers to get the right language on the license for it. Giovanni ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
