ARM/Nook Color

The Nook Color is an OMAP3621 based 7" tablet produced by Barnes and Noble as an lcd-based e-Reader. At the same time, it serves as quite a handy target for MeeGo due to the similar SoC.

Nook Color Official Site NookDevs Nook Color Portal, good source of information

Basic Nook Color Specs:

• OMAP3621 SoC @ 800MHz
  • PowerVR SGX 530
  • Differs from the 3630 by having the camera support logic disabled
• 512MB RAM
• 8GB internal storage
• microSDHC slot
• 7" IPS panel
• Power, Volume+, Volume-, and stylized "N" home button
• Headphone jack

Hardware believed to be present, but not active

• USB OTG support
• Bluetooth (some parts may not be wired out)

Kernel Sources

B&N have posted the sources for their kernel, bootloader, and xloader, on their legal page, look for Attachments 1 and 2. Attachment 1 is the older 2.6.29 kernel, while Attachment 2 is the newer 2.6.32 kernel.

A project on gitorious hosting these kernel sources (but not yet u-boot or xloader) is available: https://gitorious.org/meego-nook

Currently there is an official 2.6.32 kernel, along with a community attempted port to 2.6.35, as well as my port of those patches forward to 2.6.38, in an attempt to meet the MeeGo baseline of 2.6.37. At this point it compiles silently, but does not activate the screen thus giving no useful output.