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This is the planning page to have Mer working on the freerunner. | This is the planning page to have Mer working on the freerunner. | ||
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There are still some things to do to better support Mer for the Freerunner: | There are still some things to do to better support Mer for the Freerunner: | ||
- | + | 1)Build/Find a good keybaord - done by him-arabic maybe | |
- | + | 2)Port the FSO packages into [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Maemo%3AMer%3ADevel%3AHW%3AFreerunner%3ADevel Mer Freerunner repository] | |
- | + | 3)Run zhone as example and check the phone stack | |
- | + | 4)Build hildon compatible applets for Mer | |
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== Build/Find a good keyboard == | == Build/Find a good keyboard == | ||
- | More testing is needed in the him-arabic package to provide a good, final keyboard for freerunner like systems. Vincenzo Ampolo (goshawk) <vincenzo@ | + | More testing is needed in the him-arabic package to provide a good, final keyboard for freerunner like systems. Vincenzo Ampolo (goshawk) <vincenzo@eshopne.com> is working on it, but help is much appreciated, just join to #mer in irc.freenode.net and ping him! :) |
The tests should see how flexible is him-arabic and see if it looks good on freerunner. | The tests should see how flexible is him-arabic and see if it looks good on freerunner. | ||
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== Port the FSO packages into Mer Freerunner repository == | == Port the FSO packages into Mer Freerunner repository == | ||
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While all the things related to Mer have already been ported, the packages of the Phone stack (fso) and other applications have not yet ported. Luckly we can reuse most of the work of the Debian FSO team. The repository can be found [http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian/ here] and the deb lines are: | While all the things related to Mer have already been ported, the packages of the Phone stack (fso) and other applications have not yet ported. Luckly we can reuse most of the work of the Debian FSO team. The repository can be found [http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian/ here] and the deb lines are: | ||
- | + | deb http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main | |
deb-src http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main | deb-src http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main | ||
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This is the list of applications that need a [http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/allpackages port into the Mer archive] | This is the list of applications that need a [http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/allpackages port into the Mer archive] | ||
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== Run zhone as example and check the phone stack == | == Run zhone as example and check the phone stack == | ||
- | This can be done after | + | This can be done after 3 |
== Build hildon compatible applets for Mer == | == Build hildon compatible applets for Mer == | ||
- | This can be done after | + | This can be done after 4 |
== Debian Armel Virtual Machine for Mer development == | == Debian Armel Virtual Machine for Mer development == | ||
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== Imager == | == Imager == | ||
- | The | + | The imager is one of the most useful things in mer development, it's a script that build a rootfs image for any Mer target, since Mer runs in a lot of devices, each device require a particular kernel or packages so an image for Freerunner can contain more or less packages than another image for another device. |
- | The imager is hosted in launchpad. To run it you have to set up a debian armel environment, you can use a ready virtual machine to accomplish it. | + | The imager is hosted in launchpad. To run it you have to set up a debian armel environment, you can use a ready virtual machine to accomplish it. then you should run the imager with the command: |
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- | + | bash imager targets/mer-freerunner-fs-only directory | |
- | + | In which ''direcotry'' is the directory in which the image will be build. Remember that you have to set up a debian armel virtual machine to do it |
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