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The Ultimate Linux Handheld (Linux Journal)
The Ultimate Linux Handheld (Linux Journal)
Posted Aug 14, 2007 18:24 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: The Ultimate Linux Handheld (Linux Journal) by Janne
Parent article: The Ultimate Linux Handheld (Linux Journal)
> boo-frigging-hoo. Nokia supports free and open source software when it makes sense to them.
> Well, I would like to see some industrious third-party release a new OS for the device. I mean, if we can get Linux running on iPaqs and iPods, why not do the same for 770?
Are you joking?? Erm, maybe it's because the 770 has closed bits?
To spell it out: unless someone devotes a lot of their own time to reverse enginering, only Nokia can produce an OS for the 770. You do realize this, right?
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The Ultimate Linux Handheld (Linux Journal)
Posted Aug 15, 2007 13:06 UTC (Wed) by Janne (guest, #40891) [Link]
"Are you joking??"
No
"Erm, maybe it's because the 770 has closed bits?"
Then eliminate those bits. Either drop them completely or work around them. Linux has been ported to just about everything, and now you claim that it could not be "ported" to a device that is already running Linux?
"To spell it out: unless someone devotes a lot of their own time to reverse enginering, only Nokia can produce an OS for the 770. You do realize this, right?"
And that reverse-engineering has been done countless times before, what's different this time? Or if that reverse-engineering is too much trouble, simple drop those bits.
The Ultimate Linux Handheld (Linux Journal)
Posted Aug 15, 2007 16:24 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
> Either drop them completely or work around them.
The flasher and the root FS? You can't drop them so, yes, people are working around them.
http://www.nopcode.org/0xFFFF/
http://osmtc.indt.org/projects/mamona
It just takes a long time. It might go quicker if you would help out.
Reverse engineering is *hard*. Not many people like spending time trying to get Linux running on a device that, as you say, already runs Linux.