Charles Plessy answered your immediate question, but allow me to suggest a path for getting Debian on your tablet.
Presumably you want to cross-compile things on your more powerful x86 based machine, take a look at pdebuild-cross xdeb xapt and the other stuff coming out of the Emdebian project. First try to compile the Linux mainline kernel for your device, preferably 2.6.38 release candidates. Then try to run it. If it fails or features are missing then write patches and or copy drivers from the Android sources (if they exist) and get them included in Linux mainline. Rinse and repeat as often as needed. Links to Android sources for some tablets are here, most tablets don't appear to be GPL compliant though: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/android_tablets/ Then do the same for your preferred bootloader, u-boot is usually the one used on ARM devices. Once that is done, you will need to wait until the right kernel is in Debian. If you need the kernel to be compiled for a specific ARM sub-arch then you will need to file a wishlist bug on linux-2.6 asking for a new kernel package on ARM and detailing the kernel config options etc that are required to support the device. You might need to do something similar for u-boot, but I'm not sure. Choose a UI; there are many choices, most of them not particularly well designed for tablets. Pick one and get involved in the group packaging it for Debian. Not sure which is best, maybe MeeGo? Others are Android (not yet being packaged), GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment, Xfce, GPE, GNUStep and so on. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
