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=== Background ===
This is a wishlist of items, following from [[Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution]], to allow Maemo-based operating systems like Mer to be viable alternatives for both developers and end-users.

Nokia-closed items are not part of this list, unless there was doubt about if they were fully Nokia-closed items. Distribution of Nokia-closed items is to be decided how this could be done in a proper way through maemo.org (see [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2009-January/002946.htm this] and [http://internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=261619&postcount=26 this, which clarifies statement]) .

=== Intent ===
* Creation and distribution of firmware images for Nokia Internet Tablets containing the components below.
* Distribution of these components would be from a central server (maemo.org/tablets-dev.nokia.com) behind a MAC identification, as per the existing Nokia-created images.
* The closed source binaries and libraries to be shipped unchanged.
* Modification of secondary files (such as installation and start-up scripts) for these components to integrate them into non-Maemo systems, where required.
* Support of all Nokia Internet Tablet devices: Nokia 770, N800, N810 and N810W.

=== 3rd party wishlist === 
The [https://garage.maemo.org/docman/view.php/106/354/maemopackages-20080725.ods maemo packages overview] has been reviewed as the basis of this list.

When a package contains links to files contained in initfs, the wish is for the actual files pointed to.

{| class="wikitable"
| style="background:PaleGreen" | Useful for advanced similar experience as to Maemo 4 on tablets, could be downloaded from a Nokia package repository (MAC-locked)
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" | Useful for basic similar experience as to Maemo 4 on tablets, could be downloaded from a Nokia package repository (MAC-locked)
| style="background:LightYellow" | Useful for basic similar experience as to Maemo 4 on tablets, should be part of firmware image as to function properly
| style="background:Tomato" | Important for proper hardware interfacing for community firmware images
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Priority
! Package
! Files
! Description
! Reasoning
! Response from Nokia
|- style="background:Tomato"
| rowspan="2" | 1
| wlan-firmware
| 
| rowspan="2" | Firmware (and SoftMAC) for the Sputnik WLAN 
| rowspan="2" | Hardware interfacing for N8x0(W) (& 770): WiFi (is listed as Nokia-closed but is it?)
| rowspan="2" | ?
|- style="background:Tomato"
|
| umac.ko from initfs
|- style="background:Tomato"
| 1
| bt-firmware
|
| Firmware for the Sputnik BT
| Hardware interfacing for N8x0W: Bluetooth
| ?
|- style="background:Tomato"
| 2
|
| /mnt/initfs/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/brf6150fw.bin
| Firmware for 770 bluetooth
| Hardware interfacing for 770: Bluetooth
| ?
|- style="background:Tomato"
| 1
| osso-dsp-modules-rx-44
|
| DSP modules for OSSO Multimedia framework
| Hardware interfacing for 770, N8x0(W): DSP Sound and codecs (listed as Texas Instruments owned on [[Why_the_closed_packages]])
| ?
|- style="background:Tomato"
| 2
| gpsdriver
|
| Driver for GPS5300 GPS chip
| Hardware interfacing for N810(W): GPS driver (listed as nokia-closed but uncertain?)
| ?
|- style="background:LightSteelBlue"
| rowspan="2" | 3
| rowspan="2" | hildon-input-method-plugins
| Simpliwrite (art)
| Handwriting recognition
| Useful for similar experience to Maemo 4 on tablets
| ?
|- style="background:LightSteelBlue"
| Ezitext (zi)
| Word completion for input method
| Useful for similar experience to Maemo 4 on tablets
| ?
|- style="background:LightSteelBlue"
| 2
| adobe-flashplayer
|
| Adobe Flash browser plugin
| Flash is a key web experience
| ?
|- style="background:PaleGreen"
| 3
| gstreamer0.10-hantro
|
| Codecs for GStreamer, optimized for the tablets
| Useful for proper performance of video decoding on tablets
| ?
|}