IRC log for #neo900 on 20170601

00:07.14Joerg-Neo900electronyc: actually nobody is working on website update. I lack the competence to do web editing, and since so many other stuff dropped on my feet I lack the time to write updates/news either. Also what ravelo said is partially to the point, there's no much newsworthy stuff. Alas we lack a PR officer who enjoys writing background stories
00:09.50Joerg-Neo900Oksana is ricgt I'm considering updates high priority. But I don't know what to do about it, since... see above
00:11.28Joerg-Neo900EffSquared: you could use a Secure element SIM smartcard in SIMslot#2
00:12.37Joerg-Neo900yes, Devuan seems to be on 1.0 release now. Last time we mentioned that in our newsletter we received massive bashing from people who don't like Devuan :-S
00:13.28Joerg-Neo900for the details and rationale about Devuan, see what Wizzup said
00:13.36Joerg-Neo900it's to the point
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20:10.57enycblourgh
20:12.01enycJoerg-Neo900: r.e. devuan surely you can explain the heterogenuous-options and devuan as default   rather than it looking like  "we only want devuan"   i.e. to placate/reduce needless unhelpful complaining ... ??
20:30.49Joerg-Neo900we didn't even say anything about "devuan supported on Neo900", we just had the "great, Devuan and Maemo cooperate" which was enough to make disgruntled users turn their back on the project
20:32.19Joerg-Neo900it's not a big loss since those users - when becoming customers - would have false expectations about the project anyway, which would give us a lot of trouble in CR
20:32.37Joerg-Neo900but I don't need to have another similar shitstorm
20:37.21Joerg-Neo900I'll define the BSP we plan to deliver with Neo900: a bare bones single-user CLI-only linux system that's not based on any particular distro and can get upgraded to whatever linux distro you like (by replacing the PID1=ash by your favorite init system)
20:39.33Joerg-Neo900kernel, core-utils, bash, openssh. That's it
20:40.28Joerg-Neo900a few scripts to load and tickle the drivers for the device-specific HID/sensors/peripherals
20:40.51Joerg-Neo900possibly ALSA
20:43.30Joerg-Neo900add a BIG FAT warning that Neo900 UG the company is *NOT* involved into integrating the drivers into *any* particular linux or other distro, that's up to the community
20:44.28Joerg-Neo900we just make sure we provide POC-drivers that suffice to test all peripherals for proper function
20:45.33Joerg-Neo900and that's exactly what no other company does, they all provide a complete OS with usually closed blob drivers
20:46.05MonkeyofDoomso users are going to have to work to get the drivers into staging and then the main tree?
20:46.28Joerg-Neo900nah, afaik all drivers are already mainstream
20:46.34Joerg-Neo900main tree
20:46.36MonkeyofDoomah, then no worries
20:47.19Joerg-Neo900if there's a driver missing, we will provide it and we'll do in a way that's easy to get upstream
20:47.51Joerg-Neo900since such "missing driver" is only a tiny lack of patching an existing one
20:48.45Joerg-Neo900mind you, we have no "sekrit knowledge", we need to use same info and datasheets all the gifted linux kernel devels also have access to
20:49.04MonkeyofDoomright
20:49.15Joerg-Neo900so odds are those gifted devels already made all the drivers
20:52.36Joerg-Neo900if one is missing, we either patch an existing similar driver to accommodate our particular hardware, or we help Linus, Pali,  freemangordon and friends to do that, by providing all the datasheets we have and all the knowledge we gathered
20:53.58Joerg-Neo900I already did that for the BQ24150 kernel driver Pali wrote according to my specs, for N900
20:54.15Joerg-Neo900and iirc for a few other ones
20:54.42Joerg-Neo900LIS302? BQ27xxx?
20:55.24Joerg-Neo900ooh, and the scary N900 USB hostmode hack
20:56.01Joerg-Neo900Neo900 will have working genuine hostmode, without hacks needed ;-)
20:56.26Joerg-Neo900~h-e-n
20:56.26infobothen is probably hostmode-easy-now, or http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65232, or see ~hostmode
21:38.40atkN900 needs a hack to be a USB host?
21:39.15atkinteresting
21:39.40atkI'm guessing the USB controller for the Neo900 is some proper thing which supports OTG?
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22:07.19Joerg-Neo900yes, and yes
22:08.06Joerg-Neo900atk: Nokia developers claimed hostmode would be absolutely impossible on N900. well they were right ;-) Best I could do was h-e-n
22:08.53Joerg-Neo900atk: you may bet on me getting working proper USB OTG into Neo900
22:13.30atk:P
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