Hello team Fedora ARM, I posted in irc a few hours ago but I assumed on list would reach a wider audience... I read somewhere that there is now an ARM powered {smart|net}book device that comes out of the box running Android but I wanted to know if anyone might be familiar with a method of running Fedora ARM on the device or where I might start attempting? I haven't purchased one yet, but the device is listed at under $200 so I'm heavily considering as a hack toy .... here's the link to the product page: http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W026051760001P?vName=Computers+%...
All feedback welcome and happy hacking!
-AdamM
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Adam Miller maxamillion@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hello team Fedora ARM, I posted in irc a few hours ago but I assumed on list would reach a wider audience... I read somewhere that there is now an ARM powered {smart|net}book device that comes out of the box running Android but I wanted to know if anyone might be familiar with a method of running Fedora ARM on the device or where I might start attempting? I haven't purchased one yet, but the device is listed at under $200 so I'm heavily considering as a hack toy .... here's the link to the product page: http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W026051760001P?vName=Computers+%...
All feedback welcome and happy hacking!
I've been looking for something similar. From what I've read getting the kernel to boot is the hardest bit because unlike the x86 or even PPC platform there's no standard defined boot process or bios to boot the kernel so there's dozens of ways to do so. If the company properly complies with the GPL they should be providing source and process (scripts etc) for building their kernels. So if the GPL is provided for these devices it might be a good place to start.
Not being a kernel hacker I might be missing the entire point here.
I've been meaning to ask similar questions about the Tegra 2 ARM A9 processor from Nvidia. I presume they use their own GPU technology so while they're not open source GPU kernel drivers generally I wondered whether nouveau would work. There's a couple of tegra2 devices like the Toshiba AC100 and the Samsung Galaxy appearing in the UK.
Peter
tor 2010-09-16 klockan 07:53 +0100 skrev pbrobinson@gmail.com:
I've been meaning to ask similar questions about the Tegra 2 ARM A9 processor from Nvidia. I presume they use their own GPU technology so while they're not open source GPU kernel drivers generally I wondered whether nouveau would work. There's a couple of tegra2 devices like the Toshiba AC100 and the Samsung Galaxy appearing in the UK.
Tegra2 looks promising.
http://soltesza.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/tegra-2-supports-ubuntu-linux/
http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/
nvidia there even mentions Fedora as a unofficially supported target.
but also depends a bit on if the specific vendor have locked down the bootloader or not. If bootloader is locked then the barrier is a little higher. Hopefully they see no need of locking the bootloader in devices like this however.
Regards Henrik
On Thursday, September 16, 2010 01:53:55 am pbrobinson@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Adam Miller
maxamillion@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hello team Fedora ARM, I posted in irc a few hours ago but I assumed on list would reach a wider audience... I read somewhere that there is now an ARM powered {smart|net}book device that comes out of the box running Android but I wanted to know if anyone might be familiar with a method of running Fedora ARM on the device or where I might start attempting? I haven't purchased one yet, but the device is listed at under $200 so I'm heavily considering as a hack toy .... here's the link to the product page: http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W026051760001P?vName=Compute rs+%26+Electronics&cName=Laptops&keyword=augen&prdNo=4&blockNo=4&blockTyp e=G4
All feedback welcome and happy hacking!
I've been looking for something similar. From what I've read getting the kernel to boot is the hardest bit because unlike the x86 or even PPC platform there's no standard defined boot process or bios to boot the kernel so there's dozens of ways to do so. If the company properly complies with the GPL they should be providing source and process (scripts etc) for building their kernels. So if the GPL is provided for these devices it might be a good place to start.
Not being a kernel hacker I might be missing the entire point here.
I've been meaning to ask similar questions about the Tegra 2 ARM A9 processor from Nvidia. I presume they use their own GPU technology so while they're not open source GPU kernel drivers generally I wondered whether nouveau would work. There's a couple of tegra2 devices like the Toshiba AC100 and the Samsung Galaxy appearing in the UK.
Peter
http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/info.asp?c1=183&c2=185&i... looks quite nice. Im seriously contemplating picking one up when im home. it is a little more expensive. that $200
Dennis
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