Subject: N900 modem support in 3.18-rc1

From: [email-masked] (Robert Jarzmik)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:29:50 +0100

Pavel Machek <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Thu 2014-11-13 20:18:04, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:45:36AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> > * Pavel Machek <[email-masked]> [141113 08:23]:
>> > > OTOH ofono seems pretty reasonable. So I played a bit, and result
>> > > is python/pygtk gui which can receive an sms, initiate a call, and
>> > > report missed call. If someone wants to play, source is at
>> > > 
>> > > https://gitorious.org/tui/tui/source/b6141107e9341a1412720aed4b0d09143dfa2f4e:ofone
>> > 
>> > Pavel, care to fill in the the following type patch with some
>> > instructions in the description now that you got it working?
>> 
>> Could we even have some "permanent" instructions under Documentation/?
>
> Something like this?
>
> commit 375d8d9f17433ade6afae91d4f34e170f0af04c4
> Author: Pavel <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Sun Nov 16 11:10:59 2014 +0100
>
> Add basic documentation for n900 testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email-masked]>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/cellphones.txt b/Documentation/cellphones.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d7e8e7a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/cellphones.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
> +Running Linux on Cellphones
> +===========================
> +
> +At this moment (2014), there are no cellphones completely supported by
> +mainline kernel. Another problem is lack of hackable userspace to run
> +on cellphone, even when kernel support is available.
Hi Pavel,

There is the Mitac Mio A701. Very old but still it is there, with the kernel
part maintained.

Userspace was based on QTopia in 2008. I don't maintain that part anymore
though.

The GSM part relies on a simple ttyS device (modem has its internal flash), no
real data at that time, or rather 2G only, but the 07.10 mux support was never
included in Qtopia ...

Cheers.

-- 
Robert