Thread: Ubuntu Jaunty for the N810/N800
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2010-07-05 , 19:41
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Sorry for the thread hijack.

Originally Posted by lma View Post
(Don't feel too left out though, the N900 may not be much luckier either since apparently it's OMAP has broken thumb support and Lucid requires it.)
Isn't it only a requirement for their their binaries? IIRC, their kernel isn't even using Thumb2 yet.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
That explains why, even though I've followed the instructions here to the letter, I've had a terrible time trying to get Lucid to run in a chroot. It seems very unstable and crash-prone...

Now I know why.
Why not kill two birds with one build.

How Ubuntu isn't using the n900 as one of the reference devices is beyond me, but whatever. Go one step down and build the binaries. Do a proof-of-concept, and then create a global add/replace script for

Code:
-mno-thumb
and stuff. This has to be done regardless. If there are still kernel issues, they can hopefully be dealt with afterwards.

Then we get qole a job at Canonical:

http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/careers

http://www.canonical.com/about-canon...eers/locations
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