From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Behme Subject: Re: Android on N810 File System Problem Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:32:17 +0200 Message-ID: <482838D1.20301@googlemail.com> References: <6a56d69c0804241248w5e46efe8k757c9e5fb9e3ce22@mail.gmail.com> <48116F5C.9040009@googlemail.com> <20080425183605.GA27479@kedavra.cpe.vivax.com.br> <87fxt7my4o.fsf@nokia.com> <20080427223248.GA5962@kedavra.cpe.vivax.com.br> <20080428233827.GE8449@atomide.com> <20080429090032.GA25363@bulgaria.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:39384 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754967AbYELMbZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 08:31:25 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so1780658fgg.17 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 05:31:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080429090032.GA25363@bulgaria.corp.google.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Swetland Cc: Tony Lindgren , Felipe Balbi , Kalle Valo , Jonathan Herriott , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Brian Swetland wrote: > [Tony Lindgren ] > >>I've merged Jarkko's asoc patch to linux-omap for testing. Have not >>gotten any sound out of it on my n810 though.. Maybe some alsamixer >>settings issue? >> >>Kalle, do you have any tips on getting WLAN to work on n8x0? > > This was the show-stopper for me. When I last got things hobbling > along on n8x0, the binary-only wlan module was incompatible with > newer kernels than 2.6.21 (changes in some network data structures). > > The newer android builds expect 2.6.24 or more recent. I'm hoping > that Nokia will release a newer build of the wlan module for 2.6.24 > at some point. That'd be a big motivator for me to spend time hacking > on the platform again. Have a look to the section -- cut -- ... In the end I think what would be realistically possible ... is that Nokia provides one person whose sole task is to support the community by mantaining the closed code and providing new binaries that link against recent libraries. The community would still be able to set the direction for the development and ask for updates, so that these closed areas would not hold back work done in the open part. Which is the majority. ... -- cut -- of http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2008-May/017556.html Maybe you "as community" should "ask for updates" on maemo-developers list? Dirk