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

[From: Florian Boor]

Hi,

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.

sounds good... building it from the scratch isn't really easy, but you might
want to take a look at OpenEmbedded.
We have all relevant bits of maemo 1.0 in OE and it is pretty easy to add
support for a new device there. The current problem is that we need to update
the packages to the latest 1.1rc bits in order to make them work.
Some information about this can be found here:
http://www.kernelconcepts.de/~fuchs/oe/maemo-oe.txt

I'm trying to create a class to make OE apply the patches included in the maemo
source packages automatically because this would reduce the effort maintaining
updated maemo packages in OE extremely. Unfortunately my time to spend on this
is a little bit limited :-(

> Second, is there any documentation out there describing other efforts
> to port Maemo?

Not that i'm aware of, but it would be a good idea to start do document every
efforts in the wiki. I remember some more people were interested in it too.

Greetings

Florian

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