OpenEmbedded Invitation

[cytux]

I stay with cyph's mention. I found the phone libs very very stable and all behavier is build around the phone feature. I don't like a phone, where I may be miss an incoming call because of unstable libs or sumthing.

I am not the C guy yet but has anyone contacted mickeyl? I guess, he has some knowledge what to do best to get a working ezx toolchain.

[leprechaun]

Hmm.. I've not gone through all kernel sources so I didn't know about the GSM/GPRS.
As for MMC/SD support for this should already exist at least through the handheld.org patches.
I think there is open support for the Diskonchip too, it shouldn't be necessary to use trueffs either. MIDI-device.. well for me at least that's a minor issue.

Maybe even uCLinux could be something, spares a lot of memory and is faster to..
I'm not much for thinking about the problems, the possiblities are much more interesting.

Of course one could say the phone capabilities are the most interesting, but then again all these threads wouldn't be here if that was the truth.

[laforge]

Closed source drivers which we can never replace:
MMC/SD (I guess they need to keep the SD protocol secret)
GSM
GPRS
TrueFFS DiskOnChip
MIDI Device

MMC/SD is not difficult, as long as you are just interested in storage cards (no sdio). There is a GPL licensed MMC stack in recent 2.6.x kernels, and it has been extended to SD-cards for example in the opentom.org project.

GSM is handled by the BP anyway, so we just need to find out about the interface between AP and BP.

GPRS is a very small "line discipline" driver that can be reimplemented using the gprs specifications and the disassembly of the kernel module.

TrueFFS is probably going to be quite difficult, but the kernel module contains lots of debug messages... so reimplementation is possible, but not easy.

midi? i haven't looked into that so far, but sound is probably not the most important thing on the device anyway.

[maxx_730]

I thought there were open source drivers for DiskOnChip devices since like 2001 or something?

[swifty]

An open source phone, what a dream!

sometimes dreams come true
http://www.motorolafans.com/index.ph...ewtopic&t=6840
now:
http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6840

congratulation mickeyl and laforge!
http://www.vanille-media.de/site/ind...its-a-phone-2/
http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/