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2008-10-13 , 14:29
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Originally Posted by polossatik View Post
Thankx Qgil !
A quick glance at the "why" is already telling me that "power management stuff" is closed source , so basically any port of Maemo would need to rewrite that... And Is see also that "most of the OS2008 UI is closed source"
Looks like already a rather big hurdle to me and basically would not leave much left from the "maemo experiance" i have now on my N800...
Well, I know a few people have Maemo booting on the Beagle, so the issue is mostly finagling the hardware-specific stuff out and figuring out how to set up the initfs.

I did as much as using the TI reference kernel (2.6.22) to try to boot a backup of Diablo I had on the SD card and watching it fail miserably since the initfs wasn't there.

I'm pretty sure there's at least one person on #beagle who has done it, so you may ask around there.

Honestly, though, Stskeeps is right. You're better off just using Ubuntu or Debian (though neither of them are optimized for armv7), and simply setting up the Hildon desktop environment on there (since that stuff is all open source anyway). This approach is actually going to be even better moving forward, as even the tablet-browser-ui (or whatever actually replaces) it will be open in Fremantle.
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