Nokia N900

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:56:07AM +0200, DJDAS wrote:
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra ha scritto:
> > I don't care if that code breaks the GPL or not, what I care is that
> > is 2% too much proprietary software because it's 2% VERY IMPORTANT
> > software.
> >
> >   
> Even 2% of Freerunner code is proprietary (Calypso and Wifi and it's 
> VERY IMPORTANT too) why do we have to care if Nokia uses proprietary 
> drivers on the N900? ;)

No, it's firmware running on their chips. If it was the driver than the
following command would result in ONE instead of ZERO :)


root at om-gta02 ~ $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
0


Compare that to:
 * energy support
 * wifi
 * flasher
 * ...

Rui