HardwareComparison

• good hardware
• very good(standard) kernel
• no more big updates on the kernel(meego/mer is less active)

• shr-core
• shr-unstable(old)
• shr-testing(very old)
• debian

• shr-core

• shr-core

• shr-core

• 2 bootloader, one used for un-brickability
• U-boot,QI
• Kernel can be loaded from microsd or from flash
• rootfs can be loaded from microsd or from flash

• proprietary bootloader, but we can talk to it via a free program(0xFFFF),flash a kernel etc...
• u-boot can be chainloaded

S5L8900

• 256M flash
• microsd(compatibility issue with some cards)

• 32G oneNAND flash(repartitionable?)
• NAND flash(where maemo is stored)
• microsd

• 16G iNAND flash

• 512M flash
• microsd

• 480x640
• glamo chip/xorg driver
• xrandr -o 1 should work when not broken
• backlight working

• 800x480
• omapfb chip/xorg driver
• xv support available in xf86-video-omapfb
• no rotation in omapfb(but fbdev can rotate)

• 480x800 (wvga)
• works with xf86-video-fbdev
• backlight driver
• static rotation only (needs xorg restart)

• 480x640
• omapfb chip/xorg driver
• xv support available in xf86-video-omapfb
• no rotation in omapfb(but fbdev can rotate)

• working
• PSM working
• Require a non-free firmware

• scan now working with bcm4329
• Require a non-free firmware

• Working
• Require a non-free firmware

• Documented here, not implemented yet
• same protocol than the modem

• working

• broken in recent 2.6.37 meego kernels,was working in older kenrels(2.6.28,2.6.35)
• needs to be integrated

• hardware sound quality issues with headphones output

yes - ALSA

• alsa scenarios need fixing,modem forwarder needs fixing

• not integrated

• not integrated at all(gst-dsp is not even in oe)

• working
• A6 and before hardware revisions can suffer from a buzz issue during calls

• Work in progress
• pulseaudio plugin sources available

• working trough fsogsmd and libsamsung-ipc

• working
• Audio forwarder(for A3 units and before) need to be more tested

• works in FSO
• A7+ hardware revision has better suspend battery life
• sometimes can't go out of suspend in 2.6.39(SHR kernel), may be different for debian

• DVFS,CPUFREQ works in the 2.6.37 kernel
• some revamping of suspend handling in FSO needed
• basic suspend/resume seem to work
• as there is no telephony yet,no telephony suspend/resume yet, we could look how maemo or meego does it</span>

• 100 mA max?

• working in the 2.6.28 kernel and in meego 2.6.37 kernel
• we have found find the right media controller's media-ctl command to make it work
• not integrated in fso

• working

• old 2.6.28 kernel proximity (open/closed), working and integrated in fso
• ambientlight (in lux), not yet in fso
• Accelerometers is a standard /dev/input node
• Does accelerometer driver use polling???

• working and integrated in fso

• battery gauge integrated in the kernel
• charging from usb cable or charger(but at the speed of the usb cable(trivial to fix)) integrated in fso
• should it be integrated in the kernel instead

• 2 buttons only

• some issues with italian keyboard and GTK+ (up,down keys not working in GTK+ apps)
• keyboard backlight not integrated in fso

• 2 buttons only

• DPI added in openembedded

• DPI added in openembedded

• detailed status
• Hardware/N900/TODO

• Hardware/GTA04

• shr-unstable(old)

• shr-unstable for htcdream(old)

• htc magic needs to have the saphire board config in the kernel(the same kernel image could have dream and saphire board code at the same time)
• htc dream userland needs to be adapted for htc magic

?

• Aurora
• shr-core for palmpre
• shr-core for palmpre2
• shr-unstable(old)

• U-boot(qi available but not advised)
• rootfs can be loaded from microsd or from flash

• usually comes with proprietary bootloader, but is often replaced while rooting the phone, or free in case of developer phones
• Kernel can be loaded from flash or from usb fastboot protocol(if the bootloader permit it, else replace the bootloader if you need this feature)
• rootfs can be loaded from microsd or from flash

• easy bootloader unlock
• Kernel can be loaded from flash or from usb fastboot protocol(if the bootloader permit it, else replace the bootloader if you need this feature)
• rootfs can be loaded from microsd or from flash
• look if there are some sources for the bootloader or free bootloaders

• A bootloader called "OpeniBoot" from iDroid is installed
• Currently a hacked implementation to load SHR by renaming the iX ramdisk initrd.img.gz to android.img.gz
• iDroid is working on a menu configuration file to support multiple operating systems

OpeniBoot

• A bootloader called "bootie" from Palm is installed
• u-boot maybe can be chainloaded - needs investigation

S5L8900

• Some NEON issues: in SHR mplayer compiled with NEON can make the phone freeze, seem a software issue

• Armv7@500Mhz(palm pre and palm-pre plus),can be overclocked until 1GHz(very dangerous!) with webos-internals kernel ,omap SOC

• ARMv7@1Ghz(palm pre 2)

(less amount usable)

256M(palm pre)

512M(palm pre plus and pre 2)

• 64M flash

• partitioned flash
• flash can only run yaffs2 for now
• microsd

• 1GB internal NAND flash
• microsdhc

• 512M internal NAND flash partitioned (android partitions like system,boot,recovery etc...)
• microsdhc

• Storage limited to size of the loopback image

• 8G(palm pre) or 16G(palm pre plus and pre 2)
• no microsd

• 320x480
• standard framebuffer xorg driver
• static rotation only (needs xorg restart)
• backlight working
• no FBIOBLANK_POWERDOWN, wakelocks used instead

• wrong orientation for the htc magic(but very easy to change)

• 480x800 (wvga)
• works with gnutoo's driver

• 480x800 (wvga)
• works with xf86-video-fbdev
• backlight driver
• static rotation only (needs xorg restart)
• xf86-video-msm hard to compile(gives some accelerations)

• seems to work according to the SHR youtube video
• 320x480
• standard framebuffer xorg driver
• static rotation only (needs xorg restart)
• backlight working

• 320x480
• omapfb chip/xorg driver
• xv support available in xf86-video-omapfb
• no rotation in omapfb(but fbdev can rotate)

• PSM doesn't work well but cause found(it was not using MSM GPIO 29's IRQ but sdio irqs )
• needs to be integrated

• using wext but not cfg80211
• PSM not tested

• using wext but not cfg80211
• PSM not tested

• Works with some modifications to an old compat wireless source
• PSM untested

• proprietary

• reverse engineered
• works but no full functionality
• integrated, but not well(a bit hackish)

free software qcom libraries works in android,but need to be integrated,/dev/smd27 output NMEA

• no one looked at it yet
• same protocol than the modem

• working
• needs to be integrated

Hardware present, untested

• hardware sound quality issues with headphones output???(unsure if it's the same than gta02 since I've no gta01)

• alsa
• not finished(must find something like -ao sdl for all apps)
• aplay and mplayer works
• No multiplexing, code for that exist but I didn't find how to avoid the (worse) buffer underrun caused by it
• linphonec doesn't work

• working ALSA

• Audio routing is done via 'audio-scripts'
• fsodeviced has already support for this

• mulititouch not working yet, although it should be possible

• has been decoded
• has been implemented in a tslib plugin, clicks works
• some precision issues

• no one has tried looking if there are some source available for android

• not integrated

• kernel support
• test userland program (playwav2.c)
• not integrated into fso/gstreamer/mplayer etc...

• working

• working
• the telephony's audio is handled by the modem,but routing can be done in userspace

• in android the reference ril(which has source code) works(call etc works but microphone is muted)
• userspace plugin need to be integrated in fsousaged

• working

• works in FSO

• suspend/resume works in FSO
• wakelocks not integrated in fso(could be usefull, for instance for better battery life while playing music)

• no FSO support yet(may be easy to add)

• works in FSO

• not working
• kernel driver uses non-standard pmem and need an userspace activator

• proprietary interface not working yet.

• A userspace client that talks to the kenrel driver needs to be written

• not working

Compas and accelerometers in one chip

• Kernel drivers only
• how to use it is unknow(too many ioctls)

• gsensor
• compass
• ambient light
• proximity

• none tested

• kxsd9_accelerometer (tri-axis accelerometer)
• temt6200_light (ambient light sensor)
• hsdl9100_proximity (IR Proximity Sensor)

• working and integrated in fso

• working and integrated in fso

• not tested

• yes,in kernel

• 2 buttons only

• us,it,de mapped,upstream,and in oe
• some keys like left.right,up,down are absent (but can be mapped somewhere)
• keyboard backlight integrated in fso
• some issues with Tab like keys and GTK+ (Tab is not working in gtk+ apps)

• hardware absent on htcmagic(but present on htcdream)

• DPI added in openembedded
• todo

• DPI added in openembedded
• todo

• detailed status
• Hardware/HTC Dream/TODO

• htc-linux detailed status

• how to boot a kernel for nexusone
• how to flash a kernel for nexusone
• Nexusone TODO

References:

• youtube video
• irc chat with Lopi in #openmoko-cdevel
• iX Project
• idroid source code
• idroid status

• Hardware/PalmPre

• GNUtoo
• <insert your name here>

• GNUtoo
• <insert your name here>

• calls
• SMS
• data

• calls partial(bad sound quality)
• data

• calls works without microphone sound(need to integrate the microphone activator inside the alsa driver) + needs to integrate all that in fsodeviced

• data(but no deactivation)
• telephony

• needs a proprietary userspace driver
• reverse engineered started and abandoned.