[maemo-developers] How much are Nxxx open?

[From: Benoît HERVIER]

"How much is it open?"

Depends on screwdriver you use ...

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Nicola Mfb<nicola.mfb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm new to this community and these nice Nokia devices, and I'd like
> to join/contribute/develop for it and buy the upcoming N900.
> Before proceeding further I'd like to know a bit about its "openess".
> Already googled but there are not much and coherent informations about
> that.
> I come from OpenMoko Freerunner experience, where I'm able to flash
> the bootloader, the logo, the kernel, the rootfs and have multiple
> boot option to run several linux distro on different sd partitions.
> There are two bootloaders, the first in NOR readonly, the second in
> NAND and is used as default and is flashable, so you are able to use a
> modern and upgradable bootloader and if something goes wrong are able
> to debrick it booting from NOR, making the freerunner perfect as a
> Linux hacking device.
> The hardware is exposed by kernel in a standard way, e.g. the phone
> audio connections are managed by alsa while on other fakefree devices
> (like HTC dream) there are some closed source libraries to do that
> preventing the port of opensource phone stack (FSO).
> So may someone explain what's about the N900? How much is it open?
>
> Thank you in advance and best regards!
>
>    Nicola
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