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2009-08-02 , 17:40
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Summing up the columns shows 93 "Nokia-closed" & 2 "3rd party" out of 286 total packages, which would be at least 33% closed (some of the "OSS modified" packages, like libjpeg or libosso-gsf are also closed).
Agreed, but a lot of this is open now To the argument about what packages you need to make the N8x0 fully functional in terms of HW interfacing (before the Jazelle, 3d driver etc arguments appear: this is for the amount of HW support that users get when they install Diablo.)

wlan-firmware (i know this is just a symlink to initfs)
bt-firmware (same)
gstreamer0.10-hantro
gpsdriver
hald-addon-bme (we have a open version of this now)
dsme (more specifically libcal, CAL access + format)
Osso-dsp-modules-rx-44 - ti
initfs (BME, wlan-cal, bt-cal, etc)

Which is 7.3% of closed source software to get the N8x0 fully functional with regards to HW interfacing - hardly 90%
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