Flashing Nokia N95 or any other mobile with Maemo
 

Is it possible to flash any existing phones other than Tablet editions with maemo?

Re: Flashin Nokia N95 or anyother mobiles with Maemo
 

no, it is not possible

Re: Flashin Nokia N95 or anyother mobiles with Maemo
 

Why not? All you would need is a) a bootloader b) a flasher capable of doing it

The way I understand it. And of course the effort required to port it to those devices.

Re: Flashin Nokia N95 or anyother mobiles with Maemo
 

Maemo is for touch screen devices only. It may work on the n97 or 5800 but definitely not on the n95 i guess?

Re: Flashin Nokia N95 or anyother mobiles with Maemo
 

Which will be a non-trivial amount of effort.

Re: Flashin Nokia N95 or anyother mobiles with Maemo
 

Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say it is not possible. Not feasible, perhaps...given the HUGE amount of work that would need to into porting it (as others have noted).

Now, it is not "possible" for *me* to do it (It would take a lifetime for me, personally, to do it) but a determined group of smart people could do it if they wanted (a "Mer" like project) though the hardware limitations might put a hard cap on what was ultimately able to be accomplished. Just my 2cp.

Re: Flashin Nokia N95 or anyother mobiles with Maemo
 

c) Keys to sign the bootloader.


Good luck getting those...

Re: Flashing Nokia N95 or any other mobile with Maemo
 

What keys? Please enlighten us on that. Also a bootloader is not necessary if you can reverse engineer what it needs to boot then provide the same hooks in.

Re: Flashing Nokia N95 or any other mobile with Maemo
 

I think he means that the software needs to be encrypted with proper keys so that the hardware agrees to boot it.

Re: Flashin Nokia N95 or anyother mobiles with Maemo
 

surely that could be qualified with "yet"
Linux has a way of moving to other hardware, why exclude our own strong stablemates?

The ongoing work with Mer as a strong base for maemo on multitple platforms shows it is at least possible.
it just takes time, energy, bacon, testing and enthusiasm :D

as for the bootloader keys - surely some nokia employees hang out round here who might be able to find a way at some point in the future ;)