Geez, I walk away for a bit .... and nobody bothered to tell about the town meating
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
Cue the hordes of people screaming "USB OTG" in three, two, one, ... .
Another old topic would be multi-touch on some older devices, too. |
Ordered one today, that would be nice for all those device without an sd card.
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Originally Posted by rtiangha
So question: Does Kobo actually update or patch their kernels for either newer versions of drivers or security fixes, or is it using an ancient kernel released years ago? I looked on their github account, but the kernel stuff hasn't been touched in years. Part of me is tempted to see if I can compile some of those missing driver modules, although if I was to go that far, I'd like to see if I could use a more recent version (or the final version) of whatever kernel branch they're using.
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Only if they are forced to do so, mine came with 2.6.18, its on 2.6.35.3 now.
My guess they stop once its stable, no security patches afaict.
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
They (rarely) update the kernels. No meaningful version bumps, ever, though (i.e., they stick to the FreeScale/NXP release for the matching SoC). And the sources currently available often match what was released at the time, and not what's currently shipped.
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NXP has no obligation and Kobo says, well we order from NXP. Problem solved
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Originally Posted by lumpynose
I wonder which companies that sell devices based on Linux regularly update their kernels. Android runs on Linux; anyone know if Google updates the kernel? In the business world the old mantra "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" usually applies.
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None, you can only come by them if someone is willing to maintain it like GKH offered.
But i guess national security thought it to be a bad idea. "you mean we cant get in anymore?"