Thread: #JollaLoveDay - 20th May - device announcement
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-09-20 , 07:20
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#1025
Originally Posted by [Knuckles] View Post
But from this phone, we hear that they might opensource the UI. What about kernel drivers and all that. Will we be stuck as usual on the same old kernel forever that will have to be patched more and more by the community? Will we have the bits we need to have for instance decent android with voice calls, or it's just basically the same level of openness as previous maemo editions?
Now that the HW specs are more or less revealed, my concern is the kernel and releted development environment of the device.
  • What will the initial kernel release of the device be? If it is not 3.1.11, for example, will there be clear patches for the modified parts and drivers for continuity?
  • Will the kernel development environment require something like a VM or something like the scratchbox solution for Harmattan or will it be possible cross-compile the kernel straight on any linux distro? (because I'll be using debian propably anyway...)
  • Will there be some limitation in the device to use own-compiled kernel and modules, like on Harmattan?
  • Will there be something akin to Harmattan Closed-mode/Open-mode thing that restricts users from some parts of the device when running own kernels?
  • etc... what else?
 

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