[maemo-developers] hacker edition status and future?

From: Frantisek Dufka dufkaf at seznam.cz
Date: Mon Aug 20 17:35:02 EEST 2007
Joni Valtanen wrote:
> 
> But yes. 2.6.18 is possible to get work. but there is needed some 
> dsp+kernel guru to do this. 

What would help for the start is making old initfs from first
hacker edition available for download again so one could start testing 
kernels >= 2.6.16. With initfs from IT2006 you won't get too far when 
booting such kernel, dsme crashes and device reboots immediately.


>> We're close to releasing a new version of the hacker edition, at
>> that point let's talk about this again. With that newer version
>> working (userspace updated to the latest release for the N800
>> as much as possible) we can reconsider the use of the old initfs.

OK, thanks.

Frantisek

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