On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM, David Greaves <da...@dgreaves.com> wrote: > Also worth noting that we have some Zaurus people around and I/we did look at > OE > for Mer but felt that we wanted more compatibility with maemo etc to allow > access to things like "Extras". > > There would be a *lot* of work in just repackaging software before you even > start to hack at any code.
The benefits of having the code really ready to be hacked and ported are huge. and I therefore really hope I can help on this project. Mer is an other excellent and but really different project with more focus on end-user usabilty v.s core reusability :p Greetings > > David > > Qole wrote: >> I'm sure this is obvious, but I just want to be sure: >> >> Please also look at the Mer project, since they are trying to build a >> Maemo system, using only the open source pieces of Maemo. They are >> building their system on Ubuntu, instead of OE, but their project might >> offer insight into the problems you will encounter. >> >> http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?title=Mer >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Kirtika Ruchandani <kirt...@gmail.com >> <mailto:kirt...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am Kirtika Ruchandani, a Maemo-GSoC student this year working on >> integrating Maemo in Open Embedded(OE) by creating a maemo image for >> the N800/N810 in OE. >> >> The project aim is to get a file-system image of maemo built in OE >> for the N800/N810 with all the Maemo software stack components - >> including the hildon UI environment. The work done for this will >> also include making the platform itself portable - i.e. being able >> to port Maemo components for a device over a given base, say angstrom. >> >> I will be looking at the Poky port of Maemo, previous work done by >> my mentor Florian Boor on this project, Mamona (which supports N800 >> in OE) and Angstrom (to be studied as a base) to go about the >> porting work. >> >> >> I am a second year under-graduate student at Indian Institute of >> Technology, Madras (IIT-M) in India and my IRC and garage nickname >> is rkirti. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kirtika Ruchandani >> Sophomore >> Computer Science and Engineering >> Indian Institute of Technology, Madras >> >> http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~rkirti/maemo-oe/ >> <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/%7Erkirti/maemo-oe/> > > -- > "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > maemo-community@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community > _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list maemo-community@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
