Thread: Samsung Captivate - Samsung is OPEN-SOURCING their drivers and other code!
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2010-07-31 , 08:50
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Hmm... while poking around, I found this:
http://www.androidguys.com/2010/07/3...-sghi897-code/
Seems to indicate that Samsung is doing this to try leveraging the open-source community's ability to fix the bugs. Sounds like a GREAT reason to open-source, honestly. And I'm glad to see Samsung realizing that the way to get things to be improved faster, better and cheaper all at the same time is to open-source it and concentrate on their core job of producing hardware.

Man, that's refreshing.

They still have a ways to go to really realize that--but at least the motive and the direction is there.

Here's some more useful details as well as an email from Samsung's open-source folks about the opened source code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739823

Quoting from the developer in response to the email and looking over the source code:

I've verified that the kernel can be compiled using the Source Code and CodeSourcery G++ lite.

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It appears that the provided download doesn't contain the source code for all of the drivers. The pre-compiled binaries are present so building the kernel is still possible.

Another member says that they have been in contact with Samsung and that they(Samsung) intends on releasing the full driver source sometime next week. Whenever the complete source is released, I will update the links.
This might explain some of the oddness you saw in there, STSKeeps.
Last edited by danramos; 2010-07-31 at 08:54.
 

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