[maemo-developers] Maemo code in Linux kernel?

[From: Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 04/02/2010 12:32, Jeff Moe wrote:
> On Thursday 04 February 2010 04:23:59 Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> Dnia czwartek, 4 lutego 2010 o 11:53:22 Christopher Intemann
>> napisał(a):
>> 
>>> I came across this blog-entry [1] which is describing why the
>>> Android kernel extensions were removed from the current kernel
>>> version. I'm just curious: Where does Nokia/ Maemo stand? Are
>>> there Maemo sources in the official Linux kernel tree at all?
>> 
>> Good question. Some of nokia/Maemo code landed in linux-omap tree,
>> some got into vanilla.
>> 
>> But the question can be: is any of official kernel trees capable to
>> provide fully working 2.6.33-rc kernel for nokia 770/n8x0/n900
>> tablet?
> 
> At least for the N900 the answer is "no". The touchscreen driver
> disappeared at 2.6.29: drivers/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.c
> 
> A patch was made for re-inclusion a couple months ago, but it hasn't
> hit any git trees that I've seen. There's likely a number of other
> missing pieces as well, but that one is critical. So no support for
> N900 in any kernel since at least 2.6.29.
> 

And it might depend on what you call 'official kernel trees' too.
There's a really nice page on n900 hw at
http://natisbad.org/N900/n900-commented-hardware-specs.html where you
can find information about kernel support.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis