[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] system architecture

[From: David.Weinehall at nokia.com]

On tor, 2005-06-02 at 14:29 +0200, ext Jakob Praher wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I am very excited about maemo! Kudos to Nokia for building on open source.
> 
> I am especially interested in the system architecture of the maemo stuff.

You should probably read the publicly available information about both
maemo and Nokia 770.

> What is the core of the architecture?

The Nokia 770 uses the OMAP 1710 processor.

> -> Do you plan on using a "normal" System V distro, or are you going for
> some embedded.

maemo is based on Debian GNU/Linux.

> -> How do you want to cut booting time? (should be pretty fast?)

We're still working on that.

> -> Are you using ramdisk or are you reading/writing directly to the
> flash disk?

To flash.

> -> What boards/chipsets will be supported?

Depends on the kind of patch submissions we get, I suppose.  Nokia is
of course working on the Nokia hardware, so the target is the Nokia 770.

> -> How about powermanagement -> suspend to ram / suspend to disk. ....

The OMAP supports deep sleep.  We don't do suspend to disk.

> There could be many interesting stuff evolving from this project on that
> level.

Hopefully, yes.


Regards: David Weinehall