On Fri, October 28, 2011 10:20 am, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello, > > 2011/10/28 Victor Nitu <[email protected]>: > >> Nokia released some time ago some smartphones using a Debian-based OS, >> which >> they called Maemo. >> I was wondering if anybody on this list had any previous experience with >> the >> N900, trying to setup a >> vanilla Debian system. The arch used would be armel, and I guess the >> original phone software (well, >> the important pieces) can still be installed via apt-pinning from the >> Maemo >> repositories. > > There is a new Debian port for ARM, which we have named 'armhf', you > can get it from debian-ports.org. There is an armhf omap kernel which > should have pure mainline RX-51 (N900) enabled. You might need extra > fiddling as there are still few parts missing to be a well supported > platform in Debian (debian-installer, flash-kernel, ..).
Great to hear that the Debain armhf port also exists. I wonder how you handle GPU support as most GPU drivers and modules aren't hardfp compiled yet and most of them aren't opensource. > > Regarding Maemo packages, those might need to be rebuilt against > current Debian armhf sid, so best would be to port any package you > might want to Debian from Maemo. > > Best regards, > -- >  Héctor Orón  -.. . -... .. .- -.  -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/caodfwefsohhzdpy9xljpdqg68ekgz-b8kengb+xrbfwe0rf...@mail.gmail.com > > Regards, Joop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
