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by liquidsnake 5130 days ago
Exception: HP Touchpad. ICS runs great on it.
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fpgeek 5130 days ago
I've read that the Nokia N9 also does a good job of running ICS.

Other counter examples: Boot2Gecko (runs well & generally demoed on a Samsung Galaxy S2), Ubuntu for Android, ASUS Transformers running various Linux distributions, ...

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tmzt 5130 days ago
Because the touchpad had a fairly open bootloader and we built a more versatile one for it based on the same code base (moboot). The bootloader in the OMAP chip also allows booting from usb and does not require the second stage be signed.
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recoiledsnake 5130 days ago
That is because WebOS was running a Linux kernel and the hardware was similar to a HTC phone(Sensation?).
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