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== General Hardware Enablement of WiFi & Bluetooth using Trim Slice==
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== General Hardware Enablement of WiFi & Bluetooth Using Trim Slice==
  
 
== Project Description ==
 
== Project Description ==
  
A number of ARM boards have features that are not fully supported in Fedora.
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Most of the devices fedora supports actually only use a small amount of the hardware that is on the device. Whether it is something simple like graphics and sound or more complex features such as GYRO, GPS, FM Radio, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. There's also some other devices that would be interesting to support like the Snowball, Origen, or even the Vivaldi Tablet. Some definitely need FW and hence probably packaging if it's not in the linux-firmware dumping ground.  Having considered all of this information, it is our intention to enable WiFi & Bluetooth on the Trim Slice board using Fedora 17 as our platform.
 
 
Note: Before starting this project, you must identify the features and boards you are targeting.
 
 
 
From Peter Robinson:
 
 
 
Most of the devices we support actually only use a small amount of the HW that is actually on the device. Whether it be simple like graphics or sound or more interesting like gyro, gps, FM radio. There's also some other devices that would be interesting to support like the snowball, origen, or even the Vivaldi Tablet. Some definitely need FW and hence probably packaging if it's not in the linux-firmware dumping ground
 
 
 
Expected outcome: The identified features will be supported on the identified board(s) within Fedora.
 
 
 
Skills required: packaging, kernel/module building, testing
 
 
 
Maximum number of students: One per hardware feature to be supported
 
 
 
Resources: Chris Tyler (ctyler), Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)
 
  
 
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== Project Leader(s) ==
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== Project Leaders ==
  
 
*<u>'''Nikhil Sharma:'''</u>
 
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== Project Details ==
 
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Expected outcome: The identified features will be supported on the identified board(s) within Fedora.
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Skills required: packaging, kernel/module building, testing
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Maximum number of students: One per hardware feature to be supported
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Resources: Chris Tyler (ctyler), Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)
  
 
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Revision as of 14:40, 30 October 2012

General Hardware Enablement of WiFi & Bluetooth Using Trim Slice

Project Description

Most of the devices fedora supports actually only use a small amount of the hardware that is on the device. Whether it is something simple like graphics and sound or more complex features such as GYRO, GPS, FM Radio, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. There's also some other devices that would be interesting to support like the Snowball, Origen, or even the Vivaldi Tablet. Some definitely need FW and hence probably packaging if it's not in the linux-firmware dumping ground. Having considered all of this information, it is our intention to enable WiFi & Bluetooth on the Trim Slice board using Fedora 17 as our platform.


Project Leaders

  • Nikhil Sharma:

Wiki: [1] Blog: Blog

  • Hugo Pombo:

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Project Contributor(s)

Project Details

Expected outcome: The identified features will be supported on the identified board(s) within Fedora.

Skills required: packaging, kernel/module building, testing

Maximum number of students: One per hardware feature to be supported

Resources: Chris Tyler (ctyler), Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)


Project Plan

Tracking mechanism (bugzilla, trac, github, ...):

Key contacts: Chris Tyler (ctyler), Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)

Goals for each release and plans for reaching those goals:

  • 0.1
  • 0.2
  • 0.3

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