Hello, On 04/29/2010 03:27 PM, Thibaut Girka wrote: > 1°) µSD, yes, but NAND? > In any case, µSD will be supported, but do you think it is worthy to provide > support for Debian on the NAND? > It shouldn't be that hard, but I don't think there is any benefit in it, > since there is only 256MB available. > something seems strange with this µSD - and there are a few distributions shipping on 256MB - so for a good phone feeling I think the NAND should eventually be supported. For you first effort, though, I am not so very interested.
For NAND I think it would be sufficient to prepare the image on the desktop and then transfer it to the other platform. There would not be a need for a "live" support on the device itself. > 2°) What bootloader should be supported? Qi? U-Boot? Both? > The boot process slightly differs between Qi and U-Boot. > The installation process will use the ROM U-Boot (since it's available on any > FR, and provide useful things like DFU), > but once Debian is installed, it should be easier to use Qi. > What about U-Boot support? Is it really needed? Should we assume Qi is > installed on the NAND? > Or maybe install it ourselves (but this way sounds far too intrusive)? > No idea. > 3°) Which Desktop Environment should be the default? > Gnome is the default DE for a desktop installation of Debian, but it, of > course, isn't suitable for the FR. > I guess the main challengers are: > * XFCE: quite similar to Gnome, stable, usable, it has been in Debian for a > long time and there is already a task for it > * Illume: faster and finger-friendly, but much more experimental, and > available in unstable only > I don't care so much. And IMHO you should not worry too much either. The community is up to develop such insights within the framework you are now coming up with. > 4°) The phone suite > Well, after all, the FreeRunner is a phone. > A quick testing of Zhone, already available in Debian, shows that it seems > reliable and relatively fast. > However, it is really simple, and does not provide many features. > Please add "zavai" to that list. > Then, do you use your FR as a phone? If yes, what software do you use? > tangogps, cellhunter, xterm :) Many thanks! Steffen _______________________________________________ pkg-fso-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fso-maint
