On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:27:57PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:34:22AM -0600, ext Otto Solares wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I want to resurrect missing support for the Nokia Internet Tablets > > starting with the N8x0s for my NITdroid project, which uses just > > standard Linux kernel APIs. > > > > So first I would like to ask some very newbie questions: > > > > -Is there any ongoing effort to support these devices in latest kernels > > at the same level as the latest Nokia production kernel (2.6.21-omap)? > > n8x0 devices should boot fine with current linux-omap and I'd say we > have all the drivers here as well, besides audio, camera and wifi (me thinks) Yea it boots fine minus power management. > > -I don't plan to suspend but just sleep while idling, is this a good > > approach to power management (pm)? > > That's broken afaict. > > > -I read about the pm branch, where can I pull it? > > from linux-omap git. > > git pull \ > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git pm > > should do it > > > -Same for the camera drivers, why it was removed and what is required > > to port it back? > > get the patch out of linux-omap and send it through v4l2 maintainer. > > > -AFAIK the recent removals of the N800 sound driver was because it was > > not written for ALSA OMAP SoC API, right? > > yes. > > > -Can the retu RTC be ported to the CONFIG_RTC_CLASS API? > > > > -Are the CONFIG_REGULATOR and CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY APIs of any use for > > the Internet Tablets? > > hmm... it could be used for charging but it won't work unless you get > documentation of the charging chips used on n8x0. Also, you'd need to > change BME I suppose, which you can't :-s It would be nice that the driver expose the current interface for BME plus the standard Linux API so battery metering works out of the box for distributions other than Maemo. I put a new project to kickstart all the required Nokia proprietary software so the NITs works with other distros without booting trhu initfs: http://guug.org/nit/nitboot Eventually I would like that NIT drivers expose just standard kernel APIs so no need for nitboot. The only hard part as I see it is BME which I'm pretty sure it is not a trivial task to supplant. > > If it is lack of time of the original developers, I would like to step > > in, willing to try to complete this work as long as you are willing to > > support me with answers to my newbie questions as this devices are in > > plenty operation today but the Nokia kernel is getting really old and > > it's a good thing if we can port all the drivers to standard Linux API. > > Sure, I totally agree with you. If I had more time I'd help cleaning up > some of the old drivers and send them upstream myself, but unfortunately > I don't. > > If you wanna hack, go for it. Cool thx for the support! -otto -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
