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

Pavel Machek
2009-06-10T21:33:18Z

On Wed 2009-06-10 23:28:39, Marek Vasut wrote:
> 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).

If you can get your hands on Palm Pre, it should come with
GPL-required sources or offer for source code... if it does not, talk
to Harald Welte (gpl-violations.org)....

(If you _do_ get your hands on Palm Pre, tell me, I'd like to see the
device :-), can show you some androids/openmokos :-).
Pavel
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