First, I'd like to say thanks for all the encouragement. It's always nice to see.

Interesting idea. It almost certainly would work with a little hacking. The one big thing that stands in the way right now is that applications that want to draw directly to the framebuffer (like mplayer -vo fbdev) have no problem writing to /dev/fb0 but what they write never shows up on the screen. Since Android relies on writing to /dev/fb0 we might have a problem until this can be worked around.

Believe me, I'm interested in hardware support too, so this should improve. I'm always interested in help though, too. As for a text based install with networking...That might be fine for the N810, but without a keyboard the N800 users won't get very far I think. I don't know of any onscreen keyboards for the framebuffer console. As it is I used the slimmest install of X11 (which I think everyone will want on their tablet anyways). All this does is drop people off into an xterm and an onscreen keyboard. From their they can setup networking or do whatever else they want.

Here's the "Boot from MMC" howto: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowT..._From_MMC_card
It applies to 2008OS as well since fanoush updated his initfs.

Well it's my thread so I might as well plug the wiki page I made. heh. Basically if you're using fanoush's initfs all you need to do is point the initfs at an filesystem that contains /sbin/init . init will be run and can do whatever it wants to the rest of the system. I really do need to see what it's handed in terms of mounted filesystems though. :/

Done! Remember, it is a wiki. You *can* just add it yourself. :P