Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 22:06 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
>
> This is just plain wrong. It is extremely hard to come up with an SD
> driver for the Sharp Zaurus 5500, because there is 0 documentation
> about the Locomo custom ASIC used in this particular model.
>
Sorry for the offtopic, bu
This is way off topic, but I can't stand it uncorrected.
Oleg Gusev wrote:
> Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 17:59 schrieb Richard Franks:
>>
>> You might have to perform some really ugly hacks to ensure this
>> backwards compatibility, and it may even affect overall system
>> performance - but it's
On 12/9/06, Stefan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With ROM you refer to chips that can be written only once? I doubt
that many of such chips are still alive.
PROM's are used typically where you are producing an end product where you
don't need to update. They're MUCH cheaper than an EPRO
Hello.
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 11:45, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> My question is if the separate system-on-a-chip is ROM, or if it can
> be upgraded?
With ROM you refer to chips that can be written only once? I doubt
that many of such chips are still alive.
Keep in mind that I'm not speaking for th
On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:46, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 14:00, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> > Personally I say add the hardware, even if it needs a binary driver (or
> > even just firmware). The religious group is then free to remove the
> > driver and not use WiFi ;)
>
> Thi
Hello.
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:24, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> On Saturday 09 December 2006 13:00, Oleg Gusev wrote:
> > The TI acx100 driver used by many PDAs and phones
> > is released under GPL and loads the binary firmware
> > into baseband and radio amplifier.
>
> Supposedly even that is too p
Hello.
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:00, Oleg Gusev wrote:
> Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 12:34 schrieb Stefan Schmidt:
> >
> > Keep in mind that the FIC team have no wifi on
> > the phone because no vendor allowed them to put the wlan driver under
> > GPL. So they make the dicision to lack wifi instea
Hello.
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 14:00, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
>
> Personally I say add the hardware, even if it needs a binary driver (or even
> just firmware). The religious group is then free to remove the driver and not
> use WiFi ;)
This "religious group" contains the coreteam of OpenMoko. :)
>> It was not done to protest against the decision made by Sharp to
>> include a binary driver.
>> Was it really a pragmatic choice ?
>
>This is a rhetorical question? :-)
I find this all kind of fascinating. I doubt this "protest" particularly
impacts Sharp: after all, they've already gotten you
On 12/9/06, Oleg Gusev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an original Zaurus 5500, and it still does not support SD/SDIO
in the 2.6 kernel. An experienced kernel hacker can easily write a driver,
because the card is on a simple SPI port.
It was not done to protest against the decision made by Sha
Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 17:59 schrieb Richard Franks:
>
> You might have to perform some really ugly hacks to ensure this
> backwards compatibility, and it may even affect overall system
> performance - but it's still a pragmatic choice - the Zaurus was stuck
> on principle, the unwillingness
Hi Dave,
On 12/9/06, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought this blogpost from the FSFE might be of interest to the list
and also relates to the question I asked earlier about how the
openmoko relates to the FSF philosophy:
OpenMoko = Open Mobile Communications Platform
Neo1973 =
On 12/9/06, Paul Bohme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would like to avoid similar again, if at all possible. Loading firmware
into a device is no big deal - it doesn't link into any other code so
might as well be any random opaque blob of data. Having to deal with
the contortions involved when one
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
Personally I could care less if there was a binary only module there. I'm
pragmatic, not religious. Saying we don't add that for such a reason doesn't
help freedom of choice either.
Personally I say add the hardware, even if it needs a binary driver (or even
just firmwa
On Saturday 09 December 2006 13:42, Oleg Gusev wrote:
> Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 13:24 schrieb Gabriel Ambuehl:
> > Supposedly even that is too proprietary (I think we were over this at
> > some point)...
>
> I guess you are booting your computer from linuxbios ? :)
Personally I could care les
Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 13:24 schrieb Gabriel Ambuehl:
>
> Supposedly even that is too proprietary (I think we were over this at some
> point)...
I guess you are booting your computer from linuxbios ? :)
> But then a closed GPS daemon is ok just because it doesnt live in
> kernel.
Closed
On 12/1/06, justin hugh daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i work with multiple clients and vendors, and have amassed a good
number of security badges.
i was curious about the feasibility of being able to program the
transmitter to send out the appropriate badge id based on location?
well. that
On Saturday 09 December 2006 13:00, Oleg Gusev wrote:
> The TI acx100 driver used by many PDAs and phones
> is released under GPL and loads the binary firmware
> into baseband and radio amplifier.
Supposedly even that is too proprietary (I think we were over this at some
point)... But then a clos
Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 12:34 schrieb Stefan Schmidt:
>
> Keep in mind that the FIC team have no wifi on
> the phone because no vendor allowed them to put the wlan driver under
> GPL. So they make the dicision to lack wifi instead of using unethical
> binary-only kernel modules.
>
The TI acx10
On 09/12/06, Stefan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Keep in mind that the FIC team have no wifi on
the phone because no vendor allowed them to put the wlan driver under
GPL. So they make the dicision to lack wifi instead of using unethical
binary-only kernel modules.
I did not know that.
I
Hello.
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 10:52, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> I thought this blogpost from the FSFE might be of interest to the list
> and also relates to the question I asked earlier about how the
> openmoko relates to the FSF philosophy:
Of course you already know that Harald Welte, one of the
Hi,
I thought this blogpost from the FSFE might be of interest to the list
and also relates to the question I asked earlier about how the
openmoko relates to the FSF philosophy:
http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/back_from_gplv3_conference_in_tokyo_japan
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