Codenames

Nokia hardware and software components have lots of codenames and abbreviations, this page describes what we know about these names.

maemo
Starting from Bora the release names will be alphabetical, E and G have been excluded from this progression for various reasons (see Presentation by Quim Gil at LinuxTag 2007).

OS2006

 * Mistral - maemo 2.0 : 1.2006.26-8
 * Scirocco - maemo 2.1 : Mainly bugfixes and some other enhancements. 2.2006.39-14
 * Gregale - maemo 2.2 : Bugfixes and enhancements.

OS2007

 * Bora - maemo : 3.x 1.2006.47-20 (3.0), 3.2007.10-7 (3.1).

OS2008

 * Chinook - maemo 4.0 : 1.2007.42-18, 1.2007.42-19, 2.2007.50-2 and 2.2007.51-3
 * Diablo - maemo 4.1 : 4.2008.23-14

Announced releases

 * Fremantle : future maemo release
 * Harmattan : future maemo release, to include bundled officially-supported Qt libraries

Historic names

 * Sardine : Similar to Debian's Sid/Unstable, Sardine was an experimental distribution of the Hildon Application Framework for the OS2006 and OS2007, primarily of interest to developers who wish to test "bleeding edge" features that are being developed for future releases of Maemo. As components from Sardine stabilized, they moved into Herring. More information on the Sardine web page. In June 2008, Sardine was declared dead.
 * Herring : To Sardine as Debian Testing is to Debian's Sid/Stable, Herring was the stable branch of Sardine. Components were moved here to be prepared for release once they were feature complete.

Hardware

 * Sputnik : Codename for 770 device. Reported here and here
 * Soyuz : Mysterious unreleased device, possibly slightly improved 770 made obsolete by N800
 * Gagarin : Codename for N800.
 * SU-18 : 770
 * RX-34 : N800
 * RX-44 : N810
 * RX-48 : N810 WiMAX Edition

Software

 * bme ("Battery Management Entity") : Is proxied to D-Bus via the bme-dbus-proxy daemon
 * dsme ("Device State Management Entity") : DSME mentions:
 * mce ("Machine Control Entity")
 * Retu and Tahvo ("Fred and Barney") : "Retu" and "Tahvo" are apparently the Finnish equivalent of Fred and Barney from The Flintstones cartoon (/). Various sources indicate _Retu_ is a custom ASIC chip that includes (at least) pseudo real-time clock control, GPIO/userspace interaction(?), power button control and a watchdog timer. The watchdog can be disabled by way of the `no-retu-wd` flag accessible from the . _Tahvo_ is another ASIC(?) related to USB functionality. Retu mentions:      Tahvo mentions:
 * wd ("watchdog") : There are both hardware and software watchdogs / lifeguards that reboot the device in certain circumstances, e.g. excessive CPU usage; important process crashes; system lock up. (Feel free to expand/correct this vague and possibly inaccurate description. :-) )
 * OSSO : "Open Source Software Operations". It's a department inside Nokia.
 * nolo - Nokia bootloader : the nolo appears to have a small built-in debug shell which reminds me that there's still no information about enabling serial console available