[fedora-arm] Fedora XO 1.5 on Android tablets

[Narendra Sisodiya]

2010/9/4 Henrik Nordström <henrik at henriknordstrom.net>

> lör 2010-09-04 klockan 00:36 +0530 skrev Narendra Sisodiya:
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> > I was talking about generics steps and existing work.
>
> It's hard to speak about generic steps here. But afaik no efforts have
> been put into making a Fedora ARM Tablet edition if that is what you
> wonder. But Fedora in general do contain all the stuff you need for a
> nice tablet experience.
>
> The hardest part in getting a new device running is getting a working
> kernel + bootloader access.


The CPU is Marvell Aspen 88AP166.
But as far as, I know that Debian and fedora has ARM port. If there is a CPU
which is based on ARM, then it should work. I know this is not completely
true.




> After that getting the graphics drivers
> running proper (kernel + xorg, but I suppose most if not all drives the
> graphics as a framebuffer device which should enable the Xorg fbdev
> driver to be used.
>
> Many of the Android based tablets available on the market have been
> pretty closed down, with no hardware documentation or published kernel
> sources.  Some even using digital signatures making the bootloader
> reject "unauthorized" code. I do not think any of them are supported by
> the standard kernel.org kernel source, all requiring extra kernel
> patches.
>
> Via have however started to publish their reference Android kernel
> sources which should work on most of the Via based tablets, and some of
> the locked down bootloaders mentioned above have been cracked open..
> hopefully that kernel is good enough for running Fedora. Have not tried.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>


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