blogs.computerworld.com - 12/1/2008
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At long last, Atheros has opened up the last binary barriers to making completely open-source, Linux-friendly drivers for its popular Wi-Fi chipsets.
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linuxoniphone.blogspot.com - 11/28/2008
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linuxoniphone.blogspot.com —
I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6
kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with...
support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many ...
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Linux on the iPhone!
blog.iphone-dev.org - 11/29/2008
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blog.iphone-dev.org —
This week’s funday is today! Devteam member planetbeing
has done a phenomenal job reverse engineering Apple’s hardware...
drivers and now for the first time ever, linux is available on the iPhone and first-gen iPods. The official announcement is here . ...
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dev.org | Linux, here we come!
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Atheros lets open source devs in on the WiFi party
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In a move that will undoubtedly increase its street cred among technophiles and tinkerers alike, Atheros announced that it's releasing the specs to allow open source drivers for its ATH5K and ATH9K chip families. The move comes after Atheros first released some open source drivers for newer 802.11n chipsets and now the company is finally opening up its HAL (hardware abstraction layer) to developers, even using Linux as the reference public code base. No word on when any of this stuff will be released, but rest assured, we'll be on the lookout for more info -- we're ...
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