[Meego-architecture] Reading device specific information

[Mikko.K.Ylinen at nokia.com]

Hi,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Auke Kok
>Sent: 02 November, 2010 18:51
>
>On 11/02/10 07:13, Marko Saukko wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in N900 there is calibration area which contains information such as bt
>> and wlan MAC addresses. Is there an existing framework in MeeGo 1.2 that
>> could be extended with plugins to support reading/setting of this type
>> of device specific data?
>>
>> Couple of features in BMC related to this:
>> http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9551
>> http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9548
>
>I assume that this information is available through the connman Dbus
>API's... but I'd have to confirm to be sure. In any case, it seems like
>a good start.
>
>What exactly needs to have this information?

I think the original question is about where the data is stored
on a device. It cannot be on a filesystem because it needs to preserve
over flashing. Furthermore, it's not only about bt and wlan mac but
general 'key, value' pair type of data.

N900 has a separate partition ('calibration area') on OneNAND and that
is accessed through libcal.

There's nothing available for this yet. The first question would be: 
should this be in MeeGo or should it be hardware adaptation specific?

-- 
Regards, Mikko