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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Begging for crusty, old closed-source drivers...Here ya go! I don't really know what's in those thing... Are ya sure there's no source code for these? No?
Congrats, that was an excellent job of qolling!

Seriously. If they hand us some dusty, broken binaries, that truly would be a shame. My understanding is that Nokia actually already has source code, at the very least for some buggy, alpha-level development drivers, and maybe more; it's hard to know because they keep those things pretty close to their chest.

The problem has been that Nokia can't give that source code to the community because of licensing issues with TI. I think hope they want to hack out a deal with TI that would allow the low-level hackers in the community a chance to get these drivers up to shape.

Talking about low level hackers and keeping things close to the chest, I heard someone was going to hack around on the new kernel and get it working on the current tablets, or at least have some good notes. Any idea where those notes are?
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