Hi, The title says it mostly. There is a lot of work to be done on hardware adaptation / kernel support, middleware (FSO2 / oFono) and UI (SHR, Mer/Nemo/MTF, Aurora) regarding mobile phones. For a few devices it's mostly taking code from upstream and packaging.
Why I'm asking it more precisely is that I have a spare Nokia N900, for which there is now basic, probably untested support in fso-deviced [1] and related packages. What would be needed on that middleware level is similar to fso-common's [2] fso-gta01/fso-gta02 meta packages for Neo 1973 / Neo FreeRunner phones, polished together with its dependencies so far that the apt-get install fso-n900 would bring the phone functionalities online (then apt-get install some UI and off you go). This of course assumes that first you have a kernel from somewhere and otherwise normal Debian armel/armhf rootfs - which brings one next into packaging the hardware adaptation for OMAP3/N900 into Debian. UIs are common ground with other Debian mobile phoners, like the pkg-fso team [3] which you should probably anyway join to contribute to FSO packages. Finally, remember to check out the recent Mobile UXes BoF report [4], which should be updated with the fact that MeeGo is now called Mer on the community side and MeeGo CE - the OMAP3/N900/N950/N9 hw adaptation and handheld UX project - is now called Nemo. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fso-deviced.html [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fso-common.html [3] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianFSO [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/09/msg00126.html I have too many devices and I'd like to give the N900 to someone who wants to make a difference in this area in Debian and also work in the upstream projects Mer/Nemo (home of the hw adaptation [5], and MTF based handheld ux), upcoming Tizen (the actual continuation of MeeGo) et cetera. What I lack is free time. The N900 would come with stock PR1.3 maemo software, but with u-boot readily installed so you can boot up Debian from microSD card. It is also possible to consider how to use the 256MB NAND and the 2GB eMMC. There is some previous work done or investigated already regarding Debian on N900, see [6] for details (the modem support should now be in both FSO2 and oFono). [5] http://monster.tspre.org:2082/Mer%3a/Trunk%3a/Adaptations%3a/N900/Mer_Trunk_Base_armv7hl_standard/src/ [6] http://elektranox.org/n900/todo.html -Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajtffxmbhqnmnmbamgcn3pz9ezgy6ekb66iofvcxx1-we06...@mail.gmail.com
