[maemo-developers] Maemo code in Linux kernel?

[From: Jeff Moe]

On Thursday 04 February 2010 06:13:07 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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.

Well, I'll take "unofficial trees" too. I don't know of anyway to get a recent kernel built using what patches and git trees that are publicly available.