2010/9/4 Henrik Nordström <[email protected]> > lör 2010-09-04 klockan 00:36 +0530 skrev Narendra Sisodiya: > > > > > 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 > > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘
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