Possible foundation for K4/KT codenames

[eureka]

K4/KT has the same hardware design codenamed yoshi. But retail models of this design has also their own codenames: tequila for K4 and whitney for KT.

There were more than two models for this hardware design.Their traces are available in /etc/upstart/functions file. Here are names of these models (incuding retail ones), listed in /proc/board_id prefix order, starting from prefix 000 and up to 005:

1. yoshi
2. primer
3. harv
4. tequila
5. finkle
6. whitney

(Kindle Touch without 3G has board_id prefix 005, Kindle Touch 3G has board_id prefix 006, but the share the same codename).

What does these codenames mean? It looks like first prototype has been named yoshi, following tradition to name after Mario characters. But what about others?

Well, I don't know for sure, but googling for primer harv tequila finkle leads to book "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.

harv, tequila and finkle are names of characters. And primer is

Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Plot_summary

an interactive book, "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion in which is told the tale of Princess Nell and her various friends, kin, associates, &c". [...] The Primer is designed to react to its owners' environment and teach them what they need to know to survive and develop.

Nice allusion.

What about whitney? Unfortunately, I still don't know, what does it mean...

[knc1]

The project manager's favorite singer?
Without a 7 (and possibly an 8) it is impossible to know if the prior pattern is being followed for 6.

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by eureka

Well, I don't know for sure, but googling for primer harv tequila finkle leads to book "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.

The new "One Laptop Per Child" tablet also alludes to that book.

Also, there was a discussion about codenames here back in 2008, where it was decided that fiona was also from that book:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?p=150181

[eureka]

Originally Posted by knc1

The project manager's favorite singer?
Without a 7 (and possibly an 8) it is impossible to know if the prior pattern is being followed for 6.

Next two are: celeste (it's Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite 3G) and then icewine.

[twobob]

# TODO - remove this hack (PH-1911)
# WAN removes EHCI, which takes out the USB mouse on finkle for a while.
# this sleep is long enough (per PH-2801) that the mouse is back on the EHCI $
# also allow it to be turned off on a finkle for timing purposes
case "$(f_board)" in
finkle)
if [ ! -e /mnt/us/NO_MOUSE ]; then
f_log I X mouse_wait "sec=20" "touch /mnt/us/NO_MOUSE to avoid wait"
sleep 20
fi
;;
esac

so err? finkle has usb? mice? what's a finkle and where do I club one to death? : D

[geekmaster]

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