[maemo-developers] Curious: Maemo devices other than Nokia?

[From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:15 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>> Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:16:38PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>> >> Please take a look into OpenEmbedded, which makes building images for
>> >> various machine types very easy. The configurations for the Nokia
>> >> internet tablets are supported, but could need some fresh blood.
>> > We actually did quite some time ago and for some reason we decided not
>> > to go for it.  I'm afraid now it will require a significant of both
>> > effort and blood to change for it.
>> 
>> I don't think so. 

> It would, all of the packages on the device are (obviously) Debian
> packages, and the debian/rules of the typical maemo package is quite
> non-trivial.  I'm not saying that OE can't do the same things (it can,
> and I'm a supporter of the OE as build system model, clearly), but it
> would take some time to rework every package and all of their tweaks.

Of course -- I was not thinking along using OE to recreate their
complete IT OS distribution, but more towards adding the necessary
glue logic to make it build usable community-supperted images and
packages -- to complement rather than substitute.


Regards,

:M:

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