Kernel on track for the end of the month

[Guest ShaunR_UK]

As Tweeted by AdventVega @ 16:26 15th Jan 2011 ;)

[Guest SmileyMan73]

Why the hold up they must have the source in the first place to compile it?

[Guest Burns]

Can someone explain in noob terms what this means please?

[Guest massjourney]

Why the hold up they must have the source in the first place to compile it?

They have to follow a process mate. For example, they need to check they are not breaking any legal’s like they will have to remove third party components and get consent from any source supplied to them by their hardware vendors etc. They will probably have a small development community on the code and the code could be largely undocumented, so adding comments and a general tidy up to the code to avoid embarrassment is going to be required. Finally, they will need ot make sure its compliable external to their own development environment so they should be verifying and documenting this process. All this takes time.

[Guest damuffinman]

so adding comments and a general tidy up to the code to avoid embarrassment is going to be required.

Trust me, this takes a REALLY long time (speaking from a cs student's point of view) ;)

[Guest warriorscot]

so adding comments and a general tidy up to the code to avoid embarrassment is going to be required.

I've actually been paid to do this kind of thing along with general code tidying/optimising. It's a tedious but important process that 90% of the time comes about from lazy initial coding. If you do it at the time it makes life so much easier in lots of ways but its so tempting to skip it when you are coding.

[Guest carl rose]

This can only be good news for the devs and the bega owners. It just opens the doors to fixing many things not possible now and to add other things not included now. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Guest thedicemaster]

Can someone explain in noob terms what this means please?

it means soon custom roms can be more customized for the vega, and it should actually be possible for devs to add support for more filetypes, filesystems(ntfs, ext3, etc), and usb devices.

[Guest massjourney]

it means soon custom roms can be more customized for the vega, and it should actually be possible for devs to add support for more filetypes, filesystems(ntfs, ext3, etc), and usb devices.

In theory, we as a community will be independant of the manuafacturer so you can see Honeycomb ROMs, for example, appear for the Vega regardless of whether DSG support it directly or not.

[Guest thedicemaster]

don't expect honeycomb to be that easy to get though, i know from the acer liquid that devs need to do a lot of work to get a new android version running using an old source.