[maemo-developers] DSME code?

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:19:15PM -0400, ext Dave Neuer wrote:
>> It's possible that people who aren't happy, but aren't getting paid to
>> work on the IT OS for 770 are worried that they will start, run into
>> obstacles and a lack of information and have wasted their time -- DMSE
>> is just one of several components that need to be replaced in order to
>> have a completely-open 770, right?
> 
> There's no real such thing as a waste of time in this regard.  If you
> don't manage to completely replace the entire thing, you still have
> something, you may have still learned something, and you may have helped
> convince people that there are people who actually want to work on DSME
> (and thus, from a business point of view, a benefit to open-sourcing
> it).
> 
> As I said before, DSME isn't even terribly difficult to
> reverse-engineer.  I'm saying this as someone who's read the DSME code,
> and also the DSME API.

And without the code one can always strace DSME to see what it does.
(but don't suspend strace when it's tracing DSME as that would reboot
your machine in 1/2 minute because stopped DSME can't kick the device
HW watchdog)


	- Eero