I'd just like to jump in with some analysis, so people can put this in context.

As a start, I would like to remind everyone of what it says on http://www.slideshare.net/peterschne...ogy-highlights , slide 3. Things that stay the same in Maemo 5 and Maemo 6.

OMAP3, OpenGL ES, WVGA.

N900 has OMAP3.

OpenGL ES, in MeeGo for N900 hardware adaptation, we're already using the same SGX libraries and kernel drivers as Harmattan does. On a 2.6.33 kernel.

WVGA, well, N900 is WVGA so no issue there.

This is a very different situation than the case with Fremantle and N8x0 for several reasons.

If the same invitations stand as did with N8x0 - I don't expect anything has changed, we don't have to worry about licensing regarding binaries to make things work. If there's need to get access to things, I'm sure Nokia would be helpful.

With the Maemo on OMAP work for Maemo 5 (Beagle, Zoom2 port), we have scripts to make Maemo images/rootfs. I don't presume much has changed in Harmattan (release machinery is difficult to rewrite). With the community OBS in works, we have build machinery.

Fiasco-gen is released so we can produce firmware images. We have kexec, bootmenu and a kernel maintained in the MeeGo project.

So, that's immediate analysis.

It is difficult to say anything exact before Harmattan content is out - so keep that in mind. But let your (technical) imagination run wild about how difficult this would be.

Having a hardware adaptation project on the side we can collaborate with, helps a lot. A lot of shared components.

I think it's best to revisit this topic again when we have Harmattan content - it is always better to discuss something tangible and it is hard working blind.

EDIT: One thing that is important to remember. This is closer to a 'hardware adaptation' for N900 for Harmattan. It is similar to 'Maemo on beagle' except better access to components and more similar device hardware.

It isn't another 'Mer' either. That's MeeGo's job now - and we won't be seeing a MeeGo (rpm meego)-based Nokia OS release for a while yet we want to run on our N900. When that comes, it would be a matter of dropping it on top of the N900 hardware adaptation, MeeGo Core and UX.