[SailfishDevel] Neo900 support

Thu Apr 9 09:52:54 UTC 2015

Indeed, it seems a good starting point. The main problem to this project
is to have a compatible Android kernel running on Maemo. But it seems
there is a big memory consumption, which will not be a problem with the
Neo900. And it seems that with a more modern kernel it will be easier,
kernel which will be brought by Maemo 5 on Neo900. But after having a
running Android chroot, there will be a big code writing for doing the
glue between the chroot and Maemo ....
It seems a be a better idea to investigate about ARC Chromium extension
but it requires a more modern OS than Maemo 5.

> Schifano: and what about Android apps on N900? There was a project, now
> dead, aiming to bring them to N900 via chroot (driven by lexik) but went
> not far from the theoretical stage. There are some clues though about the
> needed kernel modules and some posts about the partial progress. It's a
> good point to start.
>
> I'm sure you would find a couple of people to help if you ask explicitly.
> If you want some more details, let me know. Maybe you'll be the one who'll
> bring us the Android apps?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ex mea Nokia N900 missum
> Marcin
>
> On Thu Apr   9 00:27:38 2015 Schifano Alexandre
> <schifano at polytech.unice.fr> wrote:
>> It depends of what you mean by "good", and what do you expect as
>> physical keyboard. You can find two or three year-old smartphones which
>> are fine, with physical keyboard, but no ubber processors and no 4G.
>> You can also find on the Chinese market smartphones like the Samsung
>> Galaxy Golden.
>> But of course the best smartphone with a physical keyboard will be the
>> one which Jolla will make ;) (if Jolla will do it one day ...)
>>
>> On 08/04/2015 23:41, Brenda Fernández wrote:
>> > Are there still good Android phones with physical keyboards? ;)
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Schifano Alexandre
>> > <schifano at polytech.unice.fr <mailto:schifano at polytech.unice.fr>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Oh, I assumed you install Android app in a chrooted Android
>> environment
>> > which implies an Android kernel.
>> > I confess than I'm a bit disapointed to discover this, because I
>> wanted
>> > to install Sailfish either on the Neo900 or on a good Android phone
>> > with a physical keyboard for having an interresting OS/device with the
>> > possibility to install Android apps when there is not equivalent.
>> >
>> > Thank you, now I have a better understanding of how it works.
>> >
>> > On 06/04/2015 14:54, Andrey Kozhevnikov wrote:
>> > Sailfish is Jolla UI over Mer with Wayland Lipstick windows
>> > manager. It
>> > runs on normal Linux kernel. Android adaptations using libhybris.
>> > If you can run Nemo on your device you can just add/replace Jolla
>> > repositories and "install" sailfish on it.
>> > You will not have possibility to install android apps until
>> > someone will
>> > create open android launcher or Jolla start licensing aliendalvik for
>> > non-Jolla devices.
>> >
>> > 06.04.2015 17:48, Schifano Alexandre пишет:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Still about a Neo900 support, I have an other question :
>> >
>> > As far as I understand, basically Sailfish is Mer (Wayland
>> > version) with
>> > the Jolla UI, and with an Android kernel and libhybris. So if I
>> > am able
>> > to have Nemo running rightly on a N(eo)900 with Wayland, I will
>> > be able
>> > to run Sailfish apps ? And if I am able to do it with an Android
>> > kernel
>> > and libhybris, I will be able to have it working with the
>> > possibility to
>> > install Android apps ?
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> >
>> > On 05/04/2015 08:12, Schifano Alexandre wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm very interrested by Sailfish OS, however I'm also very
>> > interrested
>> > by the Neo900. This smartphone is a modified Nokia N900, with a TI
>> > DM3730 1 GHz processor (Cortex-A8 with ARMv7-A instructions,
>> > mono-core)
>> > and 1GB of RAM (more here : http://neo900.org/specs). Do you think
>> > Sailfish will be able to run smoothly on it ? Will you support the
>> > Neo900 and allowing users to install your OS on it ?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Alexandre Schifano
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