Mer/Proposals/Community Firmware

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This is a proposal how community firmware images as mentioned in Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution could be done in practice.

Permissions needed from Nokia to maemo.org:

Permission to distribute the resulting firmware image of merged Nokia-closed software and Mer software, through maemo.org, behind validation of MAC address (for N8x0(W) users) and EULA specified by Nokia
Permission to download from the Diablo update repositories, binary packages (.deb files), which are Nokia-closed software. Current initial list we would like to use:
- hald-addon-bme - for retrieving battery information
- (more to come)
Permission to optionally patch scripts/package information (not binaries) in the Nokia-closed packages in order to fit them into Mer, by fixing incompatibility problems.

Need to check if this is needed:

Permission to develop patches (recipes) which may contain snippets of Nokia-closed scripts/package information as to be able to perform the patching operation correctly.
Permission to store these patches publically.

Requirements on maemo.org:

Interface to distribute files through EULA acceptance and MAC validation
QEMU-ARMEL instance modelled on http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/ with wget, python installed
https://code.launchpad.net/~mer-committers/m-r/restricted-nokia-image-maker (a tool that based on a config.py makes a image with restricted debs installed)