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Codenames

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

[edit] Release Table

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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.

[edit] OS2007

Bora - Maemo 

3.x 1.2006.47-20 (3.0), 3.2007.10-7 (3.1).

[edit] 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, 4.2008.30-2

[edit] Maemo 5

Fremantle 

current Maemo release

[edit] Announced releases

Harmattan 

future Maemo release, to include bundled officially-supported Qt libraries

[edit] 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. Sardine was declared dead in June 2008.

Herring 

Was 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.

Elephanta 

This would have been a release between Diablo and Fremantle, which was skipped in favor of bringing Maemo 5 out earlier (note the alphabetical order of releases starting with "Bora", "G" was skipped because of "Gregale") - some pages still mention it, for example [1] and [2]; Explanation in the forums, Google search of "elephanta" on maemo.org

[edit] Hardware

Sputnik 

Codename for 770 device. Reported here and here

Soyuz 

Codename for mysterious unreleased device, possibly slightly improved 770 (made obsolete by N800?). Mentioned in 2.6.16 linux kernel source for 770 when some support were added for newer hardware - 4 bit SD/MMC mode with faster 24MHz bus speed (with comment "Use faster MMC frequency on Soyuz") and LS0413Y LCD (used later in N800). So possibly this device had 770 features but full SD/MMC slot and better display.

Gagarin 

Codename for N800.

Selene 

Codename for N810.

Rover 

Codename for N900.

Dali 

Codename for N950, previously "N9-00". (Source: TMO thread, The story of Nokia MeeGo)

Lankku 

Codename for N9, previously "N9-01". (Source: The story of Nokia MeeGo)

Lauta 

RM-742

SU-18 

770

RX-34 

N800

RX-44 

N810

RX-48 

N810 WiMAX Edition

RX-51 

N900

RX-71 

Not yet known. Device powered by an OMAP3. Possibly less keys (phone?). (related TMO post). Believed to be an N9 prototype. Uses the same Himalaya display as the RM-680 (see /usr/share/mxt-config/configs/id_to_file_map.txt in Harmattan).

RX-74 

Not yet known.(Bugzilla config file ( and all others mentioned) Reported meego bug for RX-74 rev. 1110)

RM-581 

Columbus, cancelled Harmattan device, N8-ish design (The story of Nokia MeeGo, Original My Nokia Blog Story)

RM-660 

Older (development) revision of N950. Mentioned here. Referenced in "flasher 3.11.5 (May 17 2011) Harmattan" (available here or here. Various Harmattan devices including this one can be found in plain text inside the flasher binary).

RM-680 

N950, Harmattan developer device FCC Link

RM-690 

Older (development) revision of N9. Alternative unreleased/development version of the N950. Found in harmattan MCE: http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-middleware/mce/blobs/master/mce-hal.h Archived version.

RM-696 

N9

RM-716 

from The story of Nokia MeeGo: "Nokia was developing a version of N9 with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC to US market (most likely RM-716) in the beginning of 2011" and also "Apparently another version of N9 was in development for Verizon, codenamed RM-716."; http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-middleware/mce/blobs/master/mce-hal.h Archived version.

RM-742 

Cancelled N9 Successor, Lauta, basically a N9 with hardware keyboard (Source: The story of Nokia MeeGo, Original My Nokia Blog article)

N00 

Nokia OMAP3 development board, see: http://meego.gitorious.org/qemu-maemo/qemu/blobs/master/hw/n00.c

[edit] Software

bme (Battery Management Entity) 

Is proxied to D-Bus via the bme-dbus-proxy daemon

dsme (Device State Management Entity) 

DSME mentions: [3] [4]

mce (Mode Control Entity)

Retu and Tahvo (Fred and Barney) 

"Retu" and "Tahvo" are apparently the Finnish equivalent of Fred and Barney from The Flintstones cartoon ([5]/[6]). 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 [7]. Tahvo is another ASIC(?) related to USB functionality. Retu mentions: [8] [9][10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Tahvo mentions: [15][16] [17] [18] [19]

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. If the watchdog does not receive a signal within a certain time, the watchdog triggers a system reboot. Some (all?) watchdogs can be disabled in R&D mode.

OSSO (Open Source Software Operations) 

It was a department inside Nokia responsible for producing Maemo. It has been replaced by Maemo Software.

NOLO (Nokia bootloader) 

The nolo appears to have a small built-in debug shell.