[fedora-arm] Fedora XO 1.5 on Android tablets

[Narendra Sisodiya]

2010/9/4 Narendra Sisodiya <narendra at narendrasisodiya.com>

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> 2010/9/4 Henrik Nordström <henrik at henriknordstrom.net>
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> lör 2010-09-04 klockan 00:36 +0530 skrev Narendra Sisodiya:
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>> > I was talking about generics steps and existing work.
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>> 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.
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>> The hardest part in getting a new device running is getting a working
>> kernel + bootloader access.
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> 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.
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I am not worrying about bootloader as I can get development platform.
If I try like -
using virtualbox (ARM) and install fedora ARM over it. installating OLPC
desktop interface, removing gnome desktop manager, creating live usb/iso out
of this installation. mount liveusb and extract rootfs. now using rootfs
and development platform , I will boot with iso or rootfs.

Does it sound any meaningful ? I am not a expert in this kind of job.


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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Regards
>> Henrik
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