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Openmoko: looking forward to 2009

Openmoko: looking forward to 2009

Posted Jan 7, 2009 7:06 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: Openmoko: looking forward to 2009 by daniels
Parent article: Openmoko: looking forward to 2009

Well, I would have expected that between such a really good kernel programmer and software architect who had previous experience withe cell phones (see OpenEZX), and a staff of folks in Taiwan who had primary responsibility for the job, the job would have gotten done. What boggles me is that they had Harald doing other stuff.


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Openmoko: looking forward to 2009

Posted Jan 7, 2009 7:22 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

Basically everything is now working pretty much as intended on the driver side. Power management is not an easy job to get completely right very quickly, but it's getting there. One of the biggest reasons for delays has been the unfortunate choice of the graphics chip, which would give griefs to any developer team.

Openmoko: looking forward to 2009

Posted Jan 7, 2009 7:58 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

Yes, it looks like a terrible choice, but it must also be that this was compounded by not having a good contract in place before design-in acceptance for the hardware.

Openmoko: looking forward to 2009

Posted Jan 7, 2009 11:49 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

Which mobile graphics chip would you recommend?

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