So, after some effort, I managed to get my n800 ordered last week with my developer discount code (Thanks Nokia!) and it arrived today. It’s thinner than I expected it to be, but I’ve definitely been spoilt by the 770’s hard cover and I’m going to get the n800 cover accessory as soon as I find somewhere that will sell it to a US address. I’ve been playing with it over the weekend and it’s definitely slick – there are some nice usability improvements (like the way the window menu lets you close windows now) and the fully integrated bluetooth keyboard support is much appreciated.<\/p>\n
As I discussed previously, the current n800 kernel doesn’t include my mmc4 or sdhc patches but I fully expected them to work once applied. Mark Lee has already confirmed that the SDHC patch works, so I built a kernel with the roll-up of changes that Pierre sent upstream for 2.6.20 (including mmc4) plus the sdhc patch. The patches applied cleanly except that I had to exclude the omap part of the roll-up (already in there) plus make one small fix up. Then, the very first thing I did after unpacking the n800 was flash the new kernel – yep, I didn’t even turn it on first \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
It came up just fine and I popped my 4GB SDHC card inside at which point it was immediately recognised. Also, in contrast to some reports, the file manager reported the size of the card correctly. I then put my 2GB MMCmobile card from my 770 into the other slot and that worked fine too. I wasn’t able to get useful speed results due to caching (even using dd on the raw card device) but it seems to be faster than if it was only doing 1 bit transfers.<\/p>\n
When I get some time later this week, I’m going to make a custom kernel available with the MMC and SD changes in it.<\/p>\n
In other news, 2.6.20 is officially out and Pierre has pushed out his batch of changes for 2.6.21 including the SDHC support, so it will hit mainline at that time. I don’t expect Nokia to bump the kernel version, but I hope they take in these patches so that people don’t have to use custom kernels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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