[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo Live-CD?

[From: Mattias Schlenker]

Devesh Kothari wrote:

>I was thinking if we could maybe turn the Live CD to mirror more of the
>real target hardware i.e like Nokia 770 so that it would be like running
>the whole maemo root file system on x86 + development tools but without
>the limitations of x86 scratchbox. for example lot of issues come from
>the fact that you are not real root in scratchbox, and that becomes a
>problem with deamons which access the device nodes etc e.g bluetooth.
>Once the live CD boots up, it is like boothing up the x86 version of
>Nokia 770 (offcourse somethings would always be missing like the DSP),
>and then this live CD could mount the host machine partitions for
>developer home directory. Maybe the other option would be UML but last I
>checked UML had lacked host USB support (has that changed), so you can
>have USB peripherals like Bluetooth dongle, WLAN etc and then you have
>an x86 version of the Nokia 770.
>  
>

I will first try to get the current incarnation of the scratchbox live
CD more mature. The set of features is basically OK now, but I have to
write documentation, do some cleanup and add/modify some scripts for
example for saving changes made to the UnionFS.

Afterwards I will pick up your suggestion and start building a
filesystem image that merges the x86-Maemo-Filesystem with some
startup-scripts from Knoppix/Kanotix and allows the use of Bluetooth and
WLAN hardware. I think having this kind of possibility to test would
greatly stimulate the development of network (or BT) enabled
applications. A device like the 770 screams for a version of Tetris that
allows either connecting to a tetrinet server or playing two-player via
Bluetooth.

Regards,
Mattias




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