Re: [android-internals] Re: Android on Nokia n810 (OMAP2420)

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com> [080407 07:13]:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:51:09 -0700
> "ext Brian Swetland" <swetland@google.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well I'm looking for two specific things:
> > 
> > - can I use wifi with a 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 kernel?  The proprietary
> > module part of the wifi driver did not work with > 2.6.21 kernels
> > when I tried (due to network stack structure changes by the look of
> > things).
> > 
> Most probably not I think. But worth to search the maemo developers
> mailing list are there any info about this.
> 
> > - can I get the battery to charge without proprietary, binary-only,
> >   non-redistributable userspace code?  It did not seem like that was
> >   the case a couple months ago.  Perhaps it's better now?
> > 
> This should work if you boot through the initfs as usual. E.g. I've
> run the Debian armel on N810 using up-to-date linux-omap.

I guess there are still some N800/N810 patches missing from
l-o tree.

Also, you probably need to patch N810 machine id to
5555 in arch/arm/tools/mach-types to boot..

Tony