nchip ([info]nchip) wrote,
@ 2008-03-04 23:41:00
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Texas Instruments (TI) joins Linux foundation. Congrats.
TI will help foster the growth of the Linux platform and collaborate with industry leaders who define both technical and operational best practices around open source software. .... TI will further ensure that its customers have the necessary tools to create innovative and differentiated Linux-based mobile devices that use the OMAP platform and DaVinci technology.

How about starting with

  • Releasing the OMAPx TRM (Technical Reference Manuals) available to Linux community
  • Documenting your DSPs and providing a OSS bios for them (compilable with a OSS toolchain)
  • Release drivers for _all_ parts of OMAP chips, such as the AES accelerator, Jazelle java acceleration, powerVR 3d and so on.

If you continue providing documentation only for "high volume customers", your membership in Linux Foundation is a PR stunt at best.

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[info]heviosso
2008-03-04 11:59 pm UTC (link)
Afaik, linux foundation membership effectively means investing money in linux foundation (which is trendy and all that), the more, the better the member. What you ask for means investing still more money in something which is not absolutely required by said membership and may not only turn out embarrassing for yourself, but also violate contracts with 3rd party suppliers (which might demand non-disclosure).

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[info]nchip
2008-03-05 09:52 am UTC (link)
I'm aware that such things are not required by foundation - If they were, what would be the point of ranting here ;) If there is will, 3rd party contracts can be renegotiated - That's things ATI and SUN have been busy at when providing docs and/or opensourcing existing code.

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