Thread: Sailfish now on 1.0 (Jolla MWC announcement)
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2014-03-11 , 07:56
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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
Funny thing is even on N900 most of the beautiful things on the list were not out of the box, reverse engineering wlan driver to allow injection (and monitor mode?), USB host mode were all done by members of community. Since Jolla uses Android drivers not holding my breath though, injection/monitor mode thread on XDA died long ago
Yeah more often than not we'll have to forget about the cool lower level stuff that used to be doable on Maemo/MeeGo.
It was the price we paid in order to get driver support (i.e. Android dvr support -much of which is closed binary blobs) for relatively new hw.
But, hopefully there'll still be the odd hw component that's open right down to the dvr level...

If Nemo/Sailfish ever does take-off in a big way (wishful thinking), then we can look forward to a golden of era of openness right down to the dvr lvl.
That's assuming we can convince the big boys (e.g. Qualcomm) to play nice, if not, hopefully Intel will get more OEM's in Android & then Nemo/Cousins.*

*i.e. Tizen/FFOS/Ubuntu & MeR derivatives
Last edited by jalyst; 2014-03-11 at 08:03.