[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Building Maemo from scratch

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

ext Russell Geldmacher wrote:
> I am interested in building Maemo from scratch in order to begin
> figuring out what it would take to port it to a new device. I would
> appreciate any information regarding this.
> 
Building all the stuff from scratch would be tricky even for the Nokia
770. If you want to try it with other devices then I can imagine even
more troubles. It could be easier to start with UI framework part. I
vaguely recall that somebody have tried that already..

> First question: how do the developers create the binary distributions?
> If I can find information on how those are generated, perhaps I can
> adapt that to be configurable for new devices.
> 
I suggest to take a look at our dev root FS howto:
http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_use_flasher_rootfs.html
You could perhaps get some ideas from it.

> Second, is there any documentation out there describing other efforts
> to port Maemo?
> 
Not yet, but it would be great to start wiki pages on such efforts.

> Thanks for your help!
> rusty
Please keep us posted and good luck!

Regards,
Ferenc