Motorola Opens Up To Open Source Community

[theshrink]

Motorola today officially launched their open source software site, which will host a variety of projects the company is working or has worked on. Motorola has released the kernel to the A1200 Ming and A760 Tai Chi devices, which are based on Linux. Motorola has opened up drivers as well as their new MIDP 3 Java engine. Motorola is hoping that by making their MIDP 3 engine and test cases available, it will convince manufacturers to unify their Java implementations, and ease the strain on developers. Nokia, which is using Linux in their 770 tablet, also works with the open source community in a similar manner.

opensource.motorola.com

Anyone see this yet? and is this going to allow people to make linux software for the a1200?!

[ycyas]

yes, i did on linuxdevices and the org. moto site...

...and SD/MMC drivers... hope we can access up to 16Gb cards.

[SouLWa]2]2ioR]

Wooo yay more support for a1200 finally!!!

[Brooklyn]

Sorry to always be the one to ask the questions from a techless perspective, but could you translate this for us not so tech inclined people?

[theshrink]

as you saw by the last line in my post i'm not so certain what it is either... but after examining all of it... it seems as though the whole operating system off of the phone is being hosted on that website to allow developers to work with it. At least this is what i hope it is... can anyone confirm that?

[pangduckwai]

The MIDP is "Mobile Information Device Profiles". We are currently in version 2, and moto is promoting its version 3 which promise to improve mobile Java applications a lot. So this one is for Java app, not Linux app (but the app will run on Linux no problem).

But they also release the a1200 kernel code. This should open up a lot of possiblilties!!! For example, if you recall someone post the result of his not-too-successful attempt to run the Telnet server on a1200. With the kernel code we may be able to find out why it gave that "not a socket" error.