ARM/Meego images for N900

Revision as of 08:03, 27 May 2010

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There are two types of images available for N900. One that contains only open source software from MeeGo repositories and one that has some Nokia proprietary components installed.

Open source image

The open image for N900 can be obtained from http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/n900/images/. There are four kind of files

• .ubiimg for native install
• .zImage is the linux kernel image
• .tar.gz for chroot install
• .ks for creating and customizing the image yourself using MeeGo Image Creator

Closed image

The image with Nokia proprietary components can be loaded from here: http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.0/core/images/

Day one codedrop available here: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/meego-codedrop.php

Note that you must own a N900 device and accept the Nokia End User License Agreement to access the files.

There are two kinds of files available

• .ubiimg for native install
• .ks for creating and customizing the closed image yourself using MeeGo Image Creator

NOTE: You can use the kernel from the open image also with the closed image

Proprietary components in closed image

The closed image contains the following proprietary components

• Battery Management Entity (BME), without this you may cause damage to your battery.
• WLAN firmware
• Bluetooth firmware