Thread: Arch Linux ARM on N900
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2013-05-07 , 17:22
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Originally Posted by robotanarchy View Post
So I've never used the n900 I have before and then tried to install arch. I've used archlinux for quite a few years, but still this isn't as easy as I thought as I know too little about the n900 yet.
Well, personally I can't agree, as the installation is just a matter of installing a boot loader, partitioning and extracting a tarball.

Originally Posted by robotanarchy View Post
I also need all the GUI stuff to make phone calls, write sms etc. from maemo, but I don't have the time to convert all the Maemo packages to PKGBUILDs (altough that would be a really nice project ).
If it would only be that easy..
There are lots of closed source software in Fremantle. Some components were modified and modifications never got upstreamed. Generally stuff is quite old now and may be somewhat tricky to compile, at least without touching the source. Not saying it's like that with everything in Fremantle, nor that it is impossible, but merely stating it might be more complicated task than one would think of.

Originally Posted by robotanarchy View Post
Then I have read about the Thumb2 architecture. I think that this would be great for alarm on n900, too, if someone has the time to rebuild all/most alarm packages with that architecture :>
I've understood that with modern gcc, thumb2 is enabled by default on targets that support it.

Originally Posted by robotanarchy View Post
But with some luck, I can join the alarm-on-n900 users in the future, when I either have more time or more telephone stuff is ported over and the installation guide gets a bit more detailed (what do you recommend for partitioning?
Unfortunately, I don't have time (or that much interest anymore) to work with the phone functionality, so unless someone brave enough steps up and does something about it, there will be no progress. Same goes with pretty much everything.

I will not make installation guide any more detailed, every bit of information required is either here, wiki(s), or easily found from Google. Results of copy-paste-without-reading-or-understanding installations can be read throughout this thread. Just do your reading and I'm sure you can do it

Originally Posted by robotanarchy View Post
I hope that this isn't too much offtopic here, just wanted to throw in my experience so far and a few ideas which might be helpful

I really like this project, keep going everyone!
Not at all offtopic, quite the contrary. I'd be glad to see even more discussion.
 

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