I have used E17 in Mer and it does work. The drawback is that many of the tablet optimized apps don't work so well with e17 because the have been hildonized and in doing such, they no longer have menus.

For those interested...I started a maemo garage project for E17 in Mer/Maemo and it has been approved. Hopefully that project and the one Stskeeps linked to above will help us get this organized and working. Also, if you're interested in this, I'd love to get any help I can get with it.

As an aside. The project Stskeeps mentioned above should help us out quite a bit in the long run, but might take a while before it will produce anything usable for us. So, it's still best to stick with the install instructions at the beginning of this thread for now (they take a while to install, but the results are very nice).