Re: [fedora-arm] trimslice build tf101?

[Gordan Bobic]

If you can find instructions for getting any version of any distro 
running on the TF101, you can run any distro on it. You just have to use 
whatever kernel somebody got working on the device with your prefered 
distro userspace. I have many machines running that way.

On 10/20/2013 06:10 PM, Brian Kosick wrote:
>  Please forgive me if I'm incorrect about this,  I'm a N00b
> with arm
>  devices.   It looks like the tf101 does support device tree.   Here's a
>  link to cyanogenmod device tree code for it
>
>  https://github.com/RaymanFX/device_asus_tf101
>
>  There are reports of getting ubuntu running on a tf101
>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices/tf101
>  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2168473
>
>  I'm willing to do legwork, can I virtualize a specific arm device?  I've
>  done stints as build manager at my place of employment and have setup
>  and maintain a koji build farm and bodhi instance at my place of
>  employment.   I just need to bootstrap my brain into the arm world view
>
>  It seems to me that device tree is arms answer to a bios/post. As in
>  here's a list of devices/chipsets I know about on this device.
>
>  On Oct 20, 2013 5:59 AM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>       > Hi All,
>       >
>       > I have an aging Asus tf101 with the detachable keyboard and am
>      getting
>       > fairly tired of the android app ecosystem.   I was wondering
>      since the
>       > trimslice and the tf101 both share the tegra 2 chipset if anyone
>      had tried
>       > it on this device yet?   and if so could share their expereince?
>
>      I'm not aware of anyone who's got it working. There's a few things
>      we'd need to be able to support it well (this goes for pretty much any
>      device by any SoC manufacturer) and those are:
>      - Unlocked boot loader with device tree support
>      - In kernel device tree
>
>      Unfortunately most of the current older devices don't support device
>      tree which is a necessity for OOTB support on Fedora these days. Any
>      tegra based device that runs a kernel newer than 3.7 should have this
>      as all the non DT support for tegra platforms was ripped out in that
>      release. The tegra2 support is pretty reasonable now with basic video
>      support and will get better as the upstream driver code makes it to a
>      stable and usable driver.
>
>      Peter
>
>
>
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