[Pkg-n900-maint] Packaging phone functionality for Debian/N900

[Sebastian Reichel]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 08:28:12AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2016-07-21 23:46:31, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 08:51:08AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > First, thanks for the great project. Debian is usable on N900 now.
> > 
> > From the kernel-side cameras and bluetooth are still missing,
> > though. I got my H4+ driver working on N950 last week. It's
> > still broken on N900, though (if you are curious search for
> > "This fails on N900" in drivers/bluetooth/hci_h4p.c). My
> 
> Has bluetooth ever worked for you on N900?

It works with the Maemo. It never worked with the splitted H4+
driver.

> I do have v4.7-rc working, but it works only with certain
> .config's, and dependency seems to be somewhat strange.

I remmeber having problems getting your driver working due
to missing EPROBEDEFER handling. That has been quite some
time ago, though.

> Cameras will be a lot of fun: kernel drivers need work, and userspace
> needs a ton of work, too.
> 
> OTOH: phone without bluetooth and camera is still pretty usable.

sure

> > > I have working voice calls on debian 7 (and kernel v4.7) and am
> > > wondering what are the next steps... ofone is needed for SMS and modem
> > > control, libcmtspeechdata is for passing audio data back and forth.
> > > 
> > > https://gitlab.com/tui/tui/tree/master/ofone
> > > https://gitlab.com/libcmtspeechdata/libcmtspeechdata
> > > 
> > > There is a lot of work needed to be done on both, but it is already
> > > usable, so I guess it would be nice to get other people to try it, and
> > > perhaps get some Debian packages...?
> > 
> > I already packaged libcmtspeechdata for Debian some time ago. It's
> > currently based on commit 9206835e. I just updated the packaging
> > to 8efc4681 (current master) and added a package for the binaries
> > from utils/. It's currently waiting in the NEW queue.
> > 
> > https://packages.qa.debian.org/libc/libcmtspeechdata.html
> 
> Wow, thanks, good!
> 
> Do you use any kind of GUI for placing/receiving calls? Do you have
> something reasonable for screen locking?

No. I do not yet have configured my N900 for daily use.

-- Sebastian
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