Devesh Kothari wrote:
I was thinking if we could maybe turn the Live CD to mirror more of the real target hardware i.e like Nokia 770 so that it would be like running the whole maemo root file system on x86 + development tools but without the limitations of x86 scratchbox. for example lot of issues come from the fact that you are not real root in scratchbox, and that becomes a problem with deamons which access the device nodes etc e.g bluetooth. Once the live CD boots up, it is like boothing up the x86 version of Nokia 770 (offcourse somethings would always be missing like the DSP), and then this live CD could mount the host machine partitions for developer home directory. Maybe the other option would be UML but last I checked UML had lacked host USB support (has that changed), so you can have USB peripherals like Bluetooth dongle, WLAN etc and then you have an x86 version of the Nokia 770.
I will first try to get the current incarnation of the scratchbox live CD more mature. The set of features is basically OK now, but I have to write documentation, do some cleanup and add/modify some scripts for example for saving changes made to the UnionFS. Afterwards I will pick up your suggestion and start building a filesystem image that merges the x86-Maemo-Filesystem with some startup-scripts from Knoppix/Kanotix and allows the use of Bluetooth and WLAN hardware. I think having this kind of possibility to test would greatly stimulate the development of network (or BT) enabled applications. A device like the 770 screams for a version of Tetris that allows either connecting to a tetrinet server or playing two-player via Bluetooth. Regards, Mattias -- Mattias Schlenker / Tel 0851 9441369 oder 0160 7352988 Freyunger Str. 42 / 94034 Passau / http://mattlog.schlenker-webdesign.de/ http://rura-penthe.schlenker-webdesign.de/steinchenspiel/c.php _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
