Thread: New Generation of Maemo
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Firminator is offline Firminator
2012-03-26 , 10:31
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#11
Originally Posted by sulu View Post
Ask the kernel-power developers why KP is still based on 2.6.28 instead of 3.x! Then you'll know why. To make it short: The binary blobs needed to run the hardware are only available for the 2.6.28 ABI and since they are closed source they can't even be recompiled for newer kernels.
I find this quite interesting (not a developer personally) if we were able to base KP on 3.x what difference to the end-user would it make ?