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Originally Posted by Termana View Post
There seems to be a lot of naysayers in this thread. It is completely possible to port the changes up from the .28 kernel to a .33 kernel. If you read my signature, you can see I've been able to make most of the features of the n810 work with my .33 kernel, and the n810 is not mainlined, and it is not properly supported in linux-omap. If I owned an n900, I would be working on this, but I don't :P which is why I'm working on the n810 kernel.

Still, a .28 kernel isn't too bad - remember Android devices only run .29
That's exactly my point

Sure the kernel my not be supported entierly by upstream linux-omap, but that doesn't mean we can't host our own kernel source. And sure newer kernels may not provide all of the drivers - but keep in mind that all of the kernel drivers/modules in maemo5 are open source, so there's nothing really stoping you from applying driver patches from the current kernel to newer kernels.
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