Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Heya David, David Greaves writes: > If this is a reasonable compromise then it would be great to see this > work integrated with the maemo community efforts - IIRC there have been > other initiatives to investigate this kind of data so maybe they could > be dug up? That's my intention, see my r

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Carsten Valdemar Munk writes: > Did you in your research run into Mer, btw? http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer > - we strive towards having a 100% OSS platform on the software side > (our views probably differ on the HW support side but so it goes) I did run across Mer, and I was considering incorpor

Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
So first of all, I'd like to note that I was very happy to wake up to thse replies, particularly this one. It does raise a lot of confidence. > Can it be that we start having several iniciatives like this spread in > different places? At the end the goal is the same: Maemo as open as > technicall

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Great! Thank you Frantisek! Frantisek Dufka writes: > Frantisek Dufka wrote: >> Oh, right, if it can flash eMMC then the mmc code is in, so loading >> kernel from mmc is one NOLO bugzilla enhancement away ;-) > >> Again, having kernel commandline stored inside config partition and NOLO >> us

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Faheem Pervez writes: > Thanks to Carsten Munk, bootmenu gained N900 support: > http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=344412&postcount=16 Thanks for this information, and actually all of the information in this thread. It is good to hear that bootmenu is working on the n900, but IMO this is just

Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello, I'm compiling a list on the Libre Planet wiki to determine what packages are nonfree, and what steps would need to be taken to make the n900 a fully free phone: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/FreeMaemo While researching this list, I found some components that are currently marked as nonfree h

Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-11-25 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello all, I'm interested in exploring installing Debian on the n900. I assume that for the most part, if I loosely follow these instructions: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm/apds03.html.en ... that it may be possible to do so. However, I realize I need to configure the bootloader to