On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > OLPC Engineering had a trip to Taipei for the XO-1.75 motherboard > bringup last week. The 1.75 machine lives in the same industrial > design (display, case, batteries) as the XO-1/XO-1.5, but uses an > ARM system-on-chip from Marvell -- the Armada 610/MMP2. > > There's still a great deal of driver and basic bringup work ongoing, > but we're at a point where we can share details and photos: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.75_A1 > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO1.75_Bringup > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:XO1.75_A1_bringup.jpg > > http://dev.laptop.org/~lennert/20101109148.jpg > http://dev.laptop.org/~lennert/20101108144.jpg > http://dev.laptop.org/~lennert/20101108146.jpg > http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/1.75/1.75-a1-dmesg > http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/1.75/xo-1.75-broughtup.jpg > > The grand plan is to first move to the new ARM motherboard in the > old industrial design (XO-1.75), then move to that same motherboard > in a new tablet industrial design (XO-3). Of course, there tend to > be a lot of changes to OLPC's grand plans before devices ship! > > Software-wise, we're running XO-EC and Open Firmware at the low level, > and Fedora 12 with Sugar and GNOME for the OS. We plan on moving up > to Fedora 13 or 14 as they become available for ARM. (An easy way > to help us out would be to help the Fedora ARM team with their mass > rebuilds for newer Fedora releases.) > > As usual, we'll be running a Developers Program with these machines > once we've got past the necessary initial hardware fixes and made a > larger volume of boards. That's going to take several months, but > we wanted you to know that it will be coming. > > Thanks! > > - Chris, on behalf of the OLPC Engineering team. > -- > Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> > One Laptop Per Child > _______________________________________________ > olpc mailing list > o...@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc > > >
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