"How much is it open?" Depends on screwdriver you use ...
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Nicola Mfb<nicola....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > I'm new to this community and these nice Nokia devices, and I'd like > to join/contribute/develop for it and buy the upcoming N900. > Before proceeding further I'd like to know a bit about its "openess". > Already googled but there are not much and coherent informations about > that. > I come from OpenMoko Freerunner experience, where I'm able to flash > the bootloader, the logo, the kernel, the rootfs and have multiple > boot option to run several linux distro on different sd partitions. > There are two bootloaders, the first in NOR readonly, the second in > NAND and is used as default and is flashable, so you are able to use a > modern and upgradable bootloader and if something goes wrong are able > to debrick it booting from NOR, making the freerunner perfect as a > Linux hacking device. > The hardware is exposed by kernel in a standard way, e.g. the phone > audio connections are managed by alsa while on other fakefree devices > (like HTC dream) there are some closed source libraries to do that > preventing the port of opensource phone stack (FSO). > So may someone explain what's about the N900? How much is it open? > > Thank you in advance and best regards! > > Nicola > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > > -- Benoît HERVIER - http://khertan.net/ _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
