User:Stskeeps/Sandbox/Nokia Wishlist
Background
This is a wishlist of items, following from Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution, to allow Maemo-based operating systems like Mer to be viable alternatives for both developers and end-users.
Nokia-closed items are not part of this list, unless there was doubt about if they were fully Nokia-closed items. 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) .
Intent
- Creation and distribution of firmware images for Nokia Internet Tablets containing the components below.
- Distribution of these components would be from a central server (maemo.org/tablets-dev.nokia.com) behind a MAC identification, as per the existing Nokia-created images.
- The closed source binaries and libraries to be shipped unchanged.
- Modification of secondary files (such as installation and start-up scripts) for these components to integrate them into non-Maemo systems, where required.
- Support of all Nokia Internet Tablet devices: Nokia 770, N800, N810 and N810W.
3rd party wishlist
The maemo packages overview has been reviewed as the basis of this list.
<quote>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.</quote>
| 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 |
| Priority | Package | Files | Description | Reasoning | Response from Nokia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wlan-firmware | Firmware (and SoftMAC) for the Sputnik WLAN | Hardware interfacing for N8x0(W) (& 770): WiFi (is listed as Nokia-closed but is it?) | ? | |
| umac.ko from initfs | |||||
| 1 | bt-firmware | Firmware for the Sputnik BT | Hardware interfacing for N8x0W: Bluetooth | ? | |
| 2 | /mnt/initfs/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/brf6150fw.bin | Firmware for 770 bluetooth | Hardware interfacing for 770: Bluetooth | ? | |
| 1 | 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) | ? | |
| 2 | gpsdriver | Driver for GPS5300 GPS chip | Hardware interfacing for N810(W): GPS driver (listed as nokia-closed but uncertain?) | ? | |
| 3 | hildon-input-method-plugins | Simpliwrite (art) | Handwriting recognition | Useful for similar experience to Maemo 4 on tablets | ? |
| Ezitext (zi) | Word completion for input method | Useful for similar experience to Maemo 4 on tablets | ? | ||
| 2 | adobe-flashplayer | Adobe Flash browser plugin | Flash is a key web experience | ? | |
| 3 | gstreamer0.10-hantro | Codecs for GStreamer, optimized for the tablets | Useful for proper performance of video decoding on tablets | ? |