Replicant en el B92?

Poco a poco el proyecto Replicant parece que va avanzando. Para los que no lo conozcan, Replicant es una distribución Android completamente libre. Yo estoy eliminando o cambiando la mayoria de las aplicaciones propietarias por otras de codigo abierto, pero si fuese posible me gustaria usar en un futuro Replicant. Pregunta para los más expertos: cumple nuestro B92 los requisitos para instalar Replicant?

Targets Evaluation

Evaluation criteria

Minimal requirements

List of the bare minimum requirements for a device to be ported to Replicant:

• The device must be supported by CyanogenMod officially (better) or via 3rd party repos
• There must be a way to flash images (via bootloader or recovery) using a free program
• The kernel must not be signed: the bootloader must not check the kernel signature
• The kernel sources must have been released
• The network type must be GSM, no CDMA phone can be supported for now

Good target

What makes a good target for Replicant:

• Bootloader must be ready to flash images, or be very easy to unlock
• Free user-space implementation for most of the hardware already available
• Standard or well-known protocols used in the hardware (V4L2/ALSA/NMEA, etc)
• Firmwares needed only for WiFi/Bluetooth, and not sound, screen, touchscreen, camera, etc
• Freedom-compliant hardware design: Modem isolation (no shared mem, GPS, audio)

Ideal target

An ideal target for Replicant would be:

• Free bootloaders that allow easy flashing for the user
• All the hardware using standard protocols, kernel-drivers and no user-space binary blobs
• Components that do not require loadable firmware
• Ways to update the internal firmwares of the chips (for instance to allow a free software modem implementation)
• Total modem isolation (doesn't control audio, nor GPS, mem, NAND, etc)
• SIM unlock

Known to be bad targets

Here is a list of the bad targets for Replicant and reasons why:

• MSM/QSD devices are known to have bad hardware design where the modem controls GPS, audio (including mic), RAM, NAND.
  However, some MSM/QSD SoCs don't ship with a modem embedded, so they may be good targets.
• Nvidia Tegra 2 devices are known to be too slow with Replicant, since there is no NEON nor any free hwcomposer/gralloc.
  Perhaps newer Tegra SoCs (which include NEON) would be faster on Replicant.
• Motorola devices manufactured after the Milestone (inclusive). These have non-free locked bootloaders that check kernel signatures. sbf_flash, a utility capable of flashing Motorola devices, is non-free.

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http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/TargetsEvaluation