Mer

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Organizational

"Mer" is an experimental project, where an attempt of "reconstructing" the Maemo platform is done, based on the proposal on http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Reconstructed. Mer means ocean in french, "more" in danish, etc..

Launchpad page

http://launchpad.net/m-r

Platforms targeted

  • hasty-armv5el
  • hasty-armv5el-vfp
  • hasty-armv6el-vfp
  • jaunty-armel
  • jaunty-i386

Repositories and branches

Repositories at http://trac.tspre.org/mer/<arch>

  • stable - stable release, packages are througly tested and work on all platforms
  • testing - where packages that build on all platforms and has passed general testing
  • unstable - where built packages are entered at first, packages may not be same on all platforms.

Branching from Maemo packages

  • get bzr-svn, bzr
  • bzr branch <svn-url>
  • bzr push bzr+ssh://username@bazaar.launchpad.net/~username/m-r/<package name>

Builder system

Status: http://merbuilder.jaiku.com

Requests: http://jaiku.com/channel/merbuilder

Authorized users (identified by their login) can ask builder by sending <platform regexp> <bzr branch url> to start building on archs matching the platform regexp. For example, jaunty-* lp:~carsten-munk/m-r/glib

Build system

  • beagle1: BeagleBoard handling source, hasty-{armv5el,armv5el-vfp,armv6el-vfp}, jaunty-armel. Location: Århus, DK
  • dell1: pentium4 handling jaunty-i386. Location: Århus, DK

Image goals to build using Mer

  • N8x0 platform QEMU image
  • Example "Vendor" image, N8x0 platform with HW support (wifi, GPS, Adobe Flash, gstreamer codecs), scripts for building
  • x86 images (tar.gz)
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