Thread: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
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2010-08-06 , 05:04
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
What happens when that paid team is no longer paid? Will the drivers be opened up so that the community can fix bugs and features that remain on a WONTFIX status the way history has shown in the 770/N800/N810/N810WE days of Maemo?
Personally, I think we'll have a fairly long run. At some point things get feature complete and hardware adaptation stays maintained with all the fun happening in Core+Handset UX.

Risk evaluation is based on how many blobs exist:

Wifi, BT firmware - not going to break with newer kernels
BME - might break with newer kernels, should be maintained.
SGX - implements same interface nevertheless (GLESv2/EGL), kernel part is open source.
fbdev-sgx Xorg driver - must be recompiled against latest Xorg. Code is open source, but due to technical issues we compile it internally against daily/weekly MeeGo as method described in any earlier post.

.. and that's it. That's risk that's manageable, I'd say.

From open source point of view, we try to upstream all our kernel changes, making it possible to maintain.
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