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

[From: Russell Geldmacher]

Hello again,

On 12/16/05, Florian Boor <florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> 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

OK! I am not so familiar with OpenEmbeddd, so I will read that doc and
then do some reading about OE.

>
> 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 :-(

So, as I'd assume, there are package-specific patches for Maemo? These
apply to the pristine tarballs I'm guessing? Where can one get these
patches? (Is that a dumb question showing I know nothing about OE?)

> > 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.

Great, as soon as I get somethnig tangible done, I will document it in
the Wiki :-)

Thanks,
rusty

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>
> Florian
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