Le vendredi 07 mai 2010 à 12:17 -0700, Gary a écrit : > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Xavier Bestel wrote: > I don't see how the community release will be something else than > command-line, at least on smartphones: all the graphic chips supported > (or announced) so far use closed-source binary drivers (i.e. the one in > the N900 or the Z6 Atom-based chipset recently announced by Intel). > You won't be able to have a community-supported system on these. > > Just because it doesn't ship with closed source drivers doesn't mean > you won't be able to use them. The stack includes plug-in options for > things like drivers, codecs, etc. that can't ship with the freely > downloadable OS. But if Nokia or another vendor were to make those > drivers available regardless of their license, you'd still be able to > use them -- or they might have their own distribution already taylored > to a specific device. It seems pretty modular and the model is similar > to that of Debian -- nothing but free stuff in the main repositories > but there are still non-free and 3rd party repositories available to > the end user. Yes, but that's really not my conception of "community supported". And on a more pragmatic note, I see you never tried to make the "poulsbo" driver (proprietary Intel driver for GMA500) work with an up-to-date linux distribution. It's plainly impossible. Xav _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
