OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/26332/Sony_releases_binaries_for_Xperia_S Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:36:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Hmmmm http://www.osnews.com/thread?533709 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533709 Hmmmm... that surname "Queru"... looks familiar. Any disclosures you wanna make? ;) Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KLU9) Comments Comment by smashIt http://www.osnews.com/thread?533710 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533710
We have now published binaries required for the LT26i project to progress.


just wondering how this got past sonys lockdown-department Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments New customer http://www.osnews.com/thread?533711 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533711 Sony bootloader unlock service, the previous hints of Sony releasing HAL source code, CyanogenMod support, and the AOSP experiment with the Xperia S, made me decide to try a non Nexus device for the first time. I received 2 hours ago my Xperia S Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robmv) Comments RE: Hmmmm http://www.osnews.com/thread?533713 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533713
Hmmmm... that surname "Queru"... looks familiar. Any disclosures you wanna make? ;)


I thought everyone around here already knew he is Eugenia's husband. Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rjamorim) Comments RE: Comment by smashIt http://www.osnews.com/thread?533725 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533725 Simple had "contributed" ONLY BINARY BLOBS.

So if Google change ABI in Android, than all those who will use those blobs will be left in the cold.

Also:

What the heck is with you guys? Andi is OpenSource project. Why are you getting excited when someone help it by making part of it ClosedSource? Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (przemo_li) Comments RE[2]: Comment by smashIt http://www.osnews.com/thread?533756 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533756 I have no idea what you're trying to say. Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE[2]: Comment by smashIt http://www.osnews.com/thread?533763 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533763
Simple had "contributed" ONLY BINARY BLOBS.

Of course. As they clearly state, those blobs are Qualcomm's property. Ask Qualcomm if you want the source to be opened.

It is still a reason to be excited, because those blobs enable developpers to run Android with their own (open) source. Which you need in order to, you know, reverse-engineer or develop your own open-source replacement for the blobs. So it is exciting because we are real coders who dwelve in real coding, not ethereal beings who throw taboos and ukase from our ivory tower. We need those blobs as a shortcut, a stepping stone, even if we want to discard it later.Edited 2012-09-04 06:41 UTC Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Radio) Comments lol... tar.zip http://www.osnews.com/thread?533825 http://www.osnews.com/thread?533825 Went to see what these binaries are... they are shipped in a rather unconventional format of tar.zip

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... which I just unziped to find that it is not a zipped tar file, but a zipped up directory with the name SW_binaries_for_Xperia_S_v1.tarEdited 2012-09-04 15:16 UTC Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments