Hi Andrew, > Hi Chris, Can we work on QEMU with the F12 / F13 ARM port to > emulate user land of XO 1.75 and Sugar? I think that would be > helpful to get things bootstrapped earlier than waiting for more > dev boards to arrive if an emulation mechanism could be > developed.
We can try, but I think it'll be very slow. > In terms of the PS/2 closed source code - is the XO 1.75 going to > use this ancient connector at all? I'd hate to see folks waste > time reverse engineering closed source, even if it's likely to be > a few hundreds of lines if that. We use PS/2 on XO-1 and XO-1.5 to talk to the keyboard and touchpad. We're going to keep doing that in XO-1.75, because we want to retain compatibility with the bottom half of the current laptop. > I'd be interested in helping if I could. I have experience > writing X11 drivers (way back in the 1990's on the old Matrox > cards) and low level printer drivers (pnm2ppa is one of mine), > and did a bit of porting of ReiserFS to Alpha on Suse Linux for > Alpha back in the day. Great, thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[email protected]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
