Openmoko strives for openness
Lally Singh
lally.singh at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 18:15:47 CET 2008
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> >> 2. Actually, is there any hope of getting 3d acceleration out of the
> >> graphics chip, or is that too bogged down with NDA-ness? Are we stuck
> >> porting Mesa3D?
>
> Chance, sure, but the NDA situation is pretty bad it turns out for the
> Glamo.
It's a shame! Poor (Glamo) fools are shooting themselves in the foot
on this one.
> Generally speaking USB of one kind or another will very likely be around
> in one form or another... it will be a much better solution to make such
> a device a USB peripheral since you don't have to open the case, can
> unplug to revert to just being a phone, you get power provided from the
> phone, can use on other hosts, etc. And at some point it will very
> likely be 480Mbps (GTA02 is 12Mbps) DMA'd in and out, so bandwidth won't
> be an issue. I really recommend this path for any non-casual hacking.
USB2 would be fast, but AFAIK it tends to suck away all your CPU.
Something a little smarter, like firewire?
> > Promiscuous mode? I would prefer full packet injection ;) see those wep
> > networks crumble.
>
> Full (radiotap) injection is useful for non-evil things too, the problem
> with Monitor mode and the injection is the same: the closed firmware
> doesn't offer it at the moment, and the firmware alone handles the MAC
> for the current WLAN device.
My own prefs aside, this one's a biggie. If OM's looking at
potentially changing
chips down the road, something a lot more hackable here would be wonderful.
--
H. Lally Singh
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Virginia Tech
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