2010/9/4 Narendra Sisodiya <[email protected]> > > > 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. > > > 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. > > >> 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 > └─────────────────────────┘ > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘
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