USB hostmode on N900 pre-alpha for willing guinea pigs
Efforts to get USB host-mode working reliably on the N900 continue with a new package from Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh which provides an easier way for developers to start working with the code. It seems Mohammad finally managed to track down which were the important details of his procedure when he made hostmode work with Sarah Newman's debugging kernel (plus some more patches we stacked on top of it). So today he's going to ship a proof-of-concept package or whatever, plus instructions how to reproduce his success [...]. Though this package with the 'shiny GUI' looks like targeted to production, it's strictly a DEBUG kernel with a lot of nasty botches. Pay head to the warning from Joerg Reisenweber, due to the current instability of the implementation and as this package messes with both the kernel (and, thus, hardware), only those interested in contributing code to the project. Users who just want USB host should likely stear clear for the time being. Technical details are available on the other end of the story link.