Thread: N900 getting Meego in end of october?
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gerbick
2010-09-18 , 19:16
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
This would be correct if the N900 was not the ARM hardware reference device. As it is, they are doing it now-ish, on a parallel track with the rest of MeeGo, not AFTER 1.1 is released - this is also the reason that at some points the N900 image is not buildable/working. It will of course be interesting to see how stable or usable the actual 1.1 build will be, but that is something unrelated to this thread.
Why would it be unusable or unstable if the N900 is the ARM hardware reference device and why is there no definitive statement as to that progress which would lead to official support?

It just doesn't add up. If the N900 is the de facto ARM hardware reference device, then once they've finished with the OS, then make it officially available to all as an upgrade and officially support it.

What exists now is a reference device that's not going to get full support and there's no word on when/if it will be officially implemented... which is all very odd and non-committal of Nokia.

Reference devices don't always equal to implemented publicly device. And that's what I see. As it stands, the N900 is being used as a retail version of the beagleboard - which, doesn't seem that official to me.