[maemo-developers] closed tools, Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

[From: Jarmo.Tikka at nokia.com]

Hi, 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Frantisek Dufka [mailto:dufkaf at seznam.cz] 
>Sent: 02 July, 2009 09:46
>Fremantle and Diablo released
>
>Jarmo.Tikka at nokia.com wrote:
>
>> BTW I think flasher is the only closed source tool we have 
>in maemo development environment. Or at least I do not know 
>any other binary only tool :).
>> 
>
>I think gcc/uclibc toolchain for initfs development would 
>qualify but it is much worse here, we even don't have the tool 
>(despite GPL) :-(
>
>https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3373

Good point and there actually are even more "closed" tools or tools that we do not publish in maemo.org but we use internally to develop certain components (especially for those that are very close to the HW as they may require HW vendor toolchain to be used).

When I said that we do not have other closed tools in maemo than flasher I ment tools that we publish in maemo.org. 

For initfs development (and development of some very hw related components like DSP, codecs, driverts,...) these have never been supported officially in maemo and so we have not released toolchain for them either.

There were plan to start supporting initfs development as we already support development of rootfs components and kernel/kernel modules but as Fremantle does not have initfs anymore these plans were not implemented. And I do not belive we have any plans to release toolchain for initfs development for Diablo anymore.

Cheers,
//Jarmo