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	misterc	2012-03-23 , 09:07
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Originally Posted by danramos

You seem to forget that the kernel Maemo comes with, once removed of such impurities, is incredibly broken and works badly, or not at all, on the Nokia Maemo-intended devices--hence the recommended 'binary blobs' you need to build a WORKING kernel. By the way, there are more Maemo devices than the N900 from Nokia (770, N800, N810, N810WE). As I already mentioned before, Mer attempted to make a purely open Maemo translation and that failed miserably with no thanks to Nokia's closed-mindedness. So much for 'nobody is willing to go to that [extent].'

beg to differ...
what about nouveau?
it's the open source solution for Nvidia cards; the performances aren't (yet) on the level of Nvidia's binary drivers, but the alternative (to a closed source) package exists & works.
same goes for the ATI/AMD stuff (don't remember the o.s. name now)

i'm not saying it's easy and i myself wouldn't even now where to start, but it's possible...

another exemple?
the UOT
simply not supported by NOKIA and still MAG was able to implement it.

again, a matter of size of the community supporting the platform; N900 (NIT's and that Chinese clone you mentioned once) simply don't warrant the effort, alas
and the dedicated users of the N900 simply don't have the resources to do it all (again, more users would help there)
but as Pali proves with the kernel, little by little progress is done (don't shoot me on the details, really don't know how he does it)

Last edited by misterc; 2012-03-23 at 09:11.

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