[Gta04-owner] Openmoko Community Survey 2011 – Results

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 17.01.2012 um 07:21 schrieb NeilBrown:

> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:37:12 +0200 Eikka Laakso <eikka.laakso at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> When the kernel problems are gone, suspend works and it is possible to 
>> announce that GTA04 works better after a few months of life than GTA02 
>> after almost 4 years of its original shipping date. That will be the day 
>> when most of the GTA02 owners are willing to place the order.
> 
> I suspect you are correct.
> 
>> 
>> After Openmoko pulled the rug out, I was angry and didn't want to put 
>> any money on developer hardware unless I was sure. I use my freerunner 
>> as a daily phone and some of the hardware bugs still infuriate me. 
>> However I did participate in the GTA04 group tour since it seems that in 
>> many ways GTA04 is in better shape than my GTA02 was after I already had 
>> it for a year. Only place where I see that there might be a showstopper 
>> hwbug lurking is suspend/standby time, but I'm confident that it's a 
>> software bug or if not, it will be found before the group tour goes 
>> production.
>> 
>> In my mind you already have created the best phone/gadget/toy/pc in the 
>> universe. Now I just need to have it in my hands with a working kernel :).
> 
> Maybe we need to get the more boards in the hands of kernel developers....
> 
>    http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg62903.html
> 
> :-)

It turns out to be sort of a hen&egg problem...

We need more boards for kernel developers to get more people interested
in more boards...

What I think is if you can identify two or three persons who really can and
want contribute to the kernel, that we do another kickstart and/or
use donation money to provide them a GTA04 asap.

Nikolaus