Thread: Half-year review of Stskeeps's work as distmaster
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2010-04-28 , 06:08
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Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
Some subjective thought:
2) Bridging community efforts with Nokia assistance/resources
The whole 'missing driver issue' is another example of something that went on way too long and should had triggered a decision sooner.
Just quickly answering this one - Nokia only pushed TI to do this, but the absense of a driver is not a fault of Nokias, it was not their driver to give.

I was quite surprised to hear that TI announced they had a working driver for N8x0 at Maemo Summit and started planning for this arrival.

Now, imagine my surprise when it turns out they (TI) did not actually try it on anything but their development platforms and not with the N8x0 devices, in fact, had not been developed wit N8x0 nor did they have any to test on?

That screws up things quite a bit when a small task of integration turns into a driver porting task. As it was a high priority of the community, I spent a -lot- of nights working on this, with some kind of workable result. Now, there is still some work to be done in that area, but it is out of my expertise. Maybe it returns now with the MeeGo for N8x0 port.
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