MeeGo 1.1 for FreeRunner?

2010-11-16 Thread Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) 
Does anyone know how difficult it would be to port MeeGo to the
FreeRunner?

After all, we don't have enough distro's yet (-=

Cheers,

John Gay

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Re: MeeGo 1.1 for FreeRunner?

2010-11-16 Thread Al Johnson 
On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) wrote:
 Does anyone know how difficult it would be to port MeeGo to the
 FreeRunner?
 
 After all, we don't have enough distro's yet (-=

http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Porting_Guide

All looks rosy until you get to the bit about requiring the Khronos graphics 
APIs. If you look at the draft spec you'll see they don't currently support 
our old ARM architecture, and I guess they're unlikely to add it. Then again 
they haven't defined the requirements for the handset profile yet.

I could be being overly negative though, so feel free to ask over on the 
meego-porting list mentioned in the guide. We already have bootloader, kernel 
and drivers, and working X. We already use connman, and iirc someone added 
Calypso support to ofono for the FR already. If it wasn't for the graphics it 
should be a 'simple' matter of writing the required configs and setting the 
build system going ;-)

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Re: MeeGo 1.1 for FreeRunner?

2010-11-16 Thread Timo Jyrinki 
2010/11/16 Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) john@ge.com:
 Does anyone know how difficult it would be to port MeeGo to the
 FreeRunner?

Well, it would require re-compiling MeeGo for ARMv4. I've been
thinking about it, but more likely though I'll take a look at the
handset UIs available and see about packaging such things to Debian...
after all, I don't see that much extra value in a new distro as such,
but I would see benefit in any handheld suitable applications/UIs that
come out of MeeGo. Of course, both should be fun to do which is what
matters...

-Timo

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