Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Posted Oct 28, 2015 22:04 UTC (Wed) by mokki (subscriber, #33200)
Parent article: Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Nokia (with N9 phone) was pushing for mainline kernel. Nokia used to be so big player that they also convinced Texas Instruments and some other component makers on board to push all needed drivers to mainline. Nokia + TI were both in LWN top kernel contributor company lists for 10 months.
That stopped soon after Microsoft acquisition, but users are still continuing the quest of full mainline support for the N9 phone.

Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Posted Oct 29, 2015 8:36 UTC (Thu) by petur (guest, #73362) [Link]

Sorry but I can't remember ever having been able to load a kernel on my n900 that didn't have TI binary blobs. I found the effort of Nokia and TI to be less than stellar....

Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Posted Oct 30, 2015 18:54 UTC (Fri) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644) [Link] (1 responses)

The Neo900 project is doing something similar for the N900. And accepting donations.

http://neo900.org/

Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Posted Oct 30, 2015 18:56 UTC (Fri) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644) [Link]

Sorry, should have read the whole thread before commenting. keroami already mentioned the N900 further down earlier.