On 3/5/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/5/07, Larry Battraw <lbattraw at gmail.com> wrote: > >I understand > > that better support may be forthcoming, but that would be part of a > > new kernel or a back-port of the fixes. > > The Nokia folks seem to be strangely silent on the whole USB host > thing. Maybe they are not wanting to implicate themselves in a power > injection hack that could damage your tablet. That would explain why > they took out the vital bits from the kernel. > > I didn't see USB host support on the roadmap so I don't hold out much > hope for the fixing of what I would consider a major regression of the > N800 functionality vs. the 770. Nokia has surprised us with bigger > easter eggs though. > > I would appreciate some clarification from Nokia whether this > functionality will return or if it was removed intentionally. > > /Mike There was never a removal of the functionality since this is a new chipset and support for it was not available for it (AFAIK) in the kernel until recently. I tried it out and it's pretty rough in (the current kernel version) 2.6.18; it would crash very quickly after booting up and I couldn't get it to actually do anything as far as host-mode is concerned. So no conspiracy, just no working code :-) I expect as support firms up we'll see it made available on the n800, particularly if people are interested enough to help out. A roadmap/wishlist for changes to the platform is being created so this would definitely be a candidate for the list. Larry
