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Originally Posted by misterc View Post
i don't get the picture... X-(


EDIT: i think they already did the NDIS-wrappish thingy, didn't they?
they are able to run Android apps on Harmattan, or did i confuse that with something else?
not sure in how far that would do for booting, however
Again, no... Maemo nor MeeGo are neither able to run Android apps yet. You can boot into NITdroid to run Android apps, but you have to reboot into NITdroid. So far, near as I can tell, there's never been a released Android app engine to run under either Maemo nor MeeGo. If anybody's seen one--PLEASE let us know and provide a link or reference to it.

Originally Posted by lma View Post
What makes android drivers better/more open/whatever than maemo/meego ones?
Better because they would at least work, work faster/better and be available... NOT more open, that's the problem with an NDIS style wrapper (or you might be familiar with the nVidia style GPL-wrapper)--you're wrapping a closed-source binary blob with an open-source "interpreter" object to speak to said driver... whatever, well.. yeah.. if your platform wants to run on ANY hardware, it might work better or at least WORK at all if you could write an NDIS-style or GPL wrapper to run hardware drivers. I'm not saying it's the best or most open way to get things done--I'm just saying it might be the only way to get direct and/or functional access to accelerated or proprietary hardware, using Android-intended hardware drivers... and it would mean you wouldn't have to disassemble or reverse engineer the drivers--just the way Android itself manages to talk to them.
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