Hi, On Thursday, April 6, 2017, Ed Kapitein wrote: > Hi Seth, > > I love your approach to this! > If canonical would give us a kernel and drivers for the hardware, we > could take it from there. > I would need a X driver ( not mir ), a driver for the sound hardware, a > driver for the modem ( serial + AT commands ? ) and drivers for the > other parts. > ( wifi, usb, bluetooth etc ) > I'd love to start hacking once the hardware drivers are available. > > Do you think this is something that is achievable ?
There're no native drivers at all. UT utilizes Android drivers through libhybris. Cheers, Andrew > > Kind regards, > Ed > > > On 04/05/17 20:34, Seth Ciango wrote: > > This is liberating if we allow it to be. We're no longer forced to be > > Snap only while tethered to Unity8. We finally have control over the > > future of this project. The developer team needs to speak to the > > community on this. > > > > * Who is willing to stick around? > > * How difficult would a switch to GNOME be and how long would it take? > > * What current phones on the market could the community target based > > upon their openness and compatible hardware/drivers? > > > > We do not NEED Canonical or phone manufacturers. We truly thank them > > for getting us here. All the effort by the Ubuntu Phone team has been > > amazing and is greatly appreciated. > > > > We all backed this phone project financially and with hours of our > > lives. Hours that we spent debugging, coding, helping someone else. > > Hours that we could have spent with friends and family or on other > > projects. > > > > We chose to work on this phone because we believe in the ideal of > > freedom and choice. For us, the other two mobile OS's are not options. > > They represent tyranny and forced conformity. > > > > I stand here committed to these ideals and the work that has been > > done. I am prepared to further invest my money and time into giving > > freedom and choice to those who want it. > > > > > > > > > > /"they asked him what was the object of all this study applied to an > > art that would reach but very few. He replied: 'I am content with few, > > content with one, content with none at all.' ...Lay these words to > > heart, Lucilius, that you may scorn the pleasure which comes from the > > applause of the majority."/ > > / > > / > > /Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letter VII/ > > > > > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
