On 3/6/07, Larry Battraw <lbattraw at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. That makes complete sense, thanks for the info. I did notice another related thread after I posted this giving me some hope. The absence of facts invites speculation. I wasn't speculating that there was a great Nokia conspiracy to deny us USB-hosting. I was speculating that one of the reasons could have been legitimate aversion to liability. One thing that should go on this wishlist is a link from every item to a separate page where there are reasons why a particular wishlist item isn't implemented yet and specific requests for community help. I think there is a lot of FOSS people not knowing what Nokia is already doing in-house and not knowing what to sink their teeth into that will end up being made redundant before they are done. A little note for each item saying something like "Nokia internal is not working on this currently" or " this work is being done upstream at this URL" or "this work is waiting on x project to get their act in gear and support function y". I saw this new roadmap at one point but lost the link to it (the old Maemo roadmap link is horribly outdated). Can someone point the way to me? /Mike
