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SYSOPENDIGIA releases source code of its 3G Linux smartphone
SYSOPENDIGIA releases source code of its 3G Linux smartphone
Posted Feb 8, 2008 5:17 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)In reply to: SYSOPENDIGIA releases source code of its 3G Linux smartphone by BrucePerens
Parent article: SYSOPENDIGIA releases source code of its 3G Linux smartphone
The press release says this:
So, an old kernel with a few drivers and patches underneath the qtopia UI. Shame they will be using sourceforge instead of contributing to kernel.org.The source code to be contributed contains Linux kernel and device drivers created and modified by SYSOPENDIGIA. The packages can be found from Sourceforge.net under "SYSOPENDIGIA 3G Linux smartphone" project in the "Operating System Kernels" category at the end of February 2008.
...Linux kernel version is 2.6.14 with Monahans/PXA patches from Marvell, and Qtopia platform version is 4.3.
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We need distributions for the embedded world
Posted Feb 8, 2008 15:00 UTC (Fri) by fredrik (subscriber, #232) [Link]
I believe the embedded platform developers currently are in a stage where the general PC-platform world was around 1995. At that stage some of the hardware providers started to understand the benefit of providing drivers for linux, but they had not not quite grasped how to contribute yet. In the embedded and linux phone world we're now seing the same thing. The hardware developers have been consumers of open source for quite some time, and are now starting to grasp the benefits of being a open source provider too. Unfortunately the stumble a bit on how and where to contribute. What I'm hoping we'll see is one or several distributions (maybe like maemo or openmoko) that specifically target the embedded world. Such targeted distributions could act as a natural point for contributions from embedded hardware vendors. Unfortunately, what we've got so far are each hardware vendor creating a dist for his specific hardware, and not being too cooperative with others, I'm having a hard time seeing that cathedral like approach succeeding in the long run, regardless if it is open source or not.