I meant from a developer perspective, rather than investing all this energy in yet another proprietary standard (*cough* hildon *cough*), that will be killed off...

But you are right, the various incarnations of "vanilla" kernels for use with Gentoo on the n8x0 have all flopped due to Nokia's unwillings to provide the necessary source.

Note: the above may or may not be totally incorrect as I haven't slept in 24 hours and I'm not sure why I am still typing