The more observant among our readers might have already noticed that these git repositories appeared today in the official Archos Gitorious account:
And something more verbose and also for the less tech-savvy among our readers:
This will be pretty much the same type of sources like we saw them for the previous generations. (Android/Linux kernel, toolchain, µClibc userspace, …)
One very important bit: this will not be the source-code for the whole firmware. This will only be the sources for which Archos:
- voluntarily provides those
- has to provide those due to licensing terms (e.g. GPL)
Just to make this clear: no Android source code is to be expected.
We expect that soon Archos will also provide a SDE firmware for gen9 to enable experimentation with open-source software on this very interesting OMAP4 based hardware. 
Tags: buildroot, gen9, gpl, Linux kernel, sources
have a look at this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360840
This looks like a quite dangerous thing as it probably messes with your recovery menu. In the worst case it can render your device irreversibly into a brick.
I’d advise to wait for the Archos SDE.
Archos posted the sources :
https://gitorious.org/archos/archos-gpl-gen9/commits/master
The git repo appears to be populated now.
Hi ,
I hope we see a new update soon for the gingerbread for Generation 8…
I really happy with the beta but there are a few glitches …. I was expecting this as this is a beta release afterall.
Thanks for all your efforts ….
Rabeeh