Re: MSM6281 support was: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

Marek Vasut
2009-06-10T21:28:50Z

On Wednesday 10 of June 2009 23:08:36 Brian Swetland wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Stefan
>
> Schmidt<stefan@datenfreihafen.org> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:24, Brian Swetland wrote:
> >> We have full support for MSM7201A, including fully functional power
> >> management, working on a number of commercially shipping devices that
> >> we'd absolutely love to get into mainline.
> >
> > A bit offtopic here. (subject change). Is it expected that the android
> > kernel team will also work on systems that use the MSM6K modems with
> > different SoC's? I have soem systems here that use an msm6281 on a dual
> > port ram chip with non msm SoC's. I wonder how difficult it would be to
> > adaept the existing msm smd driver to such a setup.
>
> We only have documentation, support, and permission to do work on 7k
> and 8k family devices at this point. I don't know anything about the
> 6k family, and how similar (or not) the shared memory interface would
> be, so unfortunately I can't provide much help there.

Palm Pre apparently uses MSM68xx as a baseband chip, otherwise is omap3 based.
The device is out, selling, but I haven't seen any kernel patches from them
yet. I hope they release them in a few weeks (even though they should have
been out already).
>
> Brian
>
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