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2010-08-20 , 09:52
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Originally Posted by johnel View Post
Actually, the reason I asked the question was because of the work done in maemo to get "USB host" working via software.
Yes. As it turns out, the hardware supports it, but the drivers are not proper...

Originally Posted by johnel View Post
AFAIK, the "USB host" hack almost works (inconsistently) but I think the developers are having some kind of trouble with the BME (it's closed source). Also, I think the meego developers are working on an open-source BME which means the "USB Host" hackers can utilise it and maybe solve the problem on Meego.
Yep... BME (Battery Management Entity) is closed source... because of this come some of the problems. Actually some people were trying to reverse-engineer it (with disassemblers and stuff).

The general opinion is that Nokia didn't open source it because they were ashamed of the poor quality of the code.

Originally Posted by johnel View Post
Also I think the bluetooth drivers on maemo are incomplete(?) but with Meego "being more linux-like" than maemo maybe a proper bluetooth stack will be installable - which hopefully would mean decent device support.
I haven't heard about this yet. What do you mean by "being more Linux-like"?

Originally Posted by johnel View Post
You would be over-qualified to work within Nokia - you can actually converse with other people in an intelligent manner!
Haha! Thanks!


btw, I always feel weirdly in such discussions, since the abbreviation BME means something totally different to me.
(BME = Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem = Budapest University of Technology)
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