User:Stskeeps/Sandbox/Nokia Wishlist
This is a wishlist in accordance with Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution
3rd party wishlist
The 3rd party determination has been done using maemo packages overview. When a package name is mentioned and this package is a package containing links to files contained in initfs, the wish is for the actual files pointed to.
Nokia-closed items are not part of this list unless if there was doubt if they were fully Nokia-closed items, and distribution of Nokia-closed items is to be decided how this could be done in a proper way through maemo.org (see this and this, which clarifies statement)
What is asked is the possibility to distribute firmware images (FIASCO images, jffs images, etc.) containing these 3rd party components from maemo.org to Nokia tablet users identified by their MAC address, in similar fashion to tablets-dev.nokia.com.
What is also asked, is the ability to modify the Debian packaging (installation scripts) and initialization scripts of these packages if need be, to make it install and fit properly into the Mer system, but not to modify or alter the actual closed source binaries or libraries.
We are including 3rd party wishlist for Nokia 770, Nokia N800, Nokia N810 and N810W, 770 included due to project ability to support this device with modern operating systems.
| Useful for advanced similar experience as to Maemo 4 on tablets, could be downloaded from a Nokia package repository (MAC-locked) | Useful for basic similar experience as to Maemo 4 on tablets, could be downloaded from a Nokia package repository (MAC-locked) | Useful for basic similar experience as to Maemo 4 on tablets, should be part of firmware image as to function properly | Important for proper hardware interfacing for community firmware images |
| Files involved | Description | Reasoning | Response from Nokia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Package wlan-firmware and umac.ko from initfs | Firmware (and SoftMAC) for the Sputnik WLAN | Hardware interfacing for N8x0(W) (& 770): WiFi - is listed as Nokia-closed but is it? | ? |
| Package bt-firmware | Firmware for the Sputnik BT | Hardware interfacing for N8x0W: Bluetooth | ? |
| /mnt/initfs/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/brf6150fw.bin | Firmware for 770 bluetooth | Hardware interfacing for 770: Bluetooth | ? |
| Package osso-dsp-modules-rx-44 | DSP modules for OSSO Multimedia framework | Hardware interfacing for 770, N8x0(W): DSP Sound and codecs, listed as Texas Instruments owned on Why_the_closed_packages | ? |
| Package gpsdriver | binary driver for GPS5300 gps chip | Hardware interfacing for N810(W): GPS driver, listed as nokia-closed but uncertain? | ? |
| Simpliwrite (art) | Handwriting recognition | Useful for similar experience to Maemo 4 on tablets (requires nokia-closed input method as well) | ? |
| Ezitext (zi) | Word completion for input method | Useful for similar experience to Maemo 4 on tablets (requires nokia-closed input method as well) | ? |
| Package gstreamer0.10-hantro | Codecs for GStreamer, optimized for the tablets | Useful for proper performance of video decoding on tablets, listed as Nokia-closed but is it? | ? |