On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Johnson Chetty <johnsonche...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Yes... we're working on getting Sugar on the tablet form factor. > > We're looking at compiling Sugar for an armv7 chip based tablet. > (Allwinner > > A10 chip- armhf ). There are many cheap tablets flooding the market here > in > > India, so we thought it is a good idea to get Sugar on them. > > Would be quite cost effective, (not in the long run though, none of them > are > > as sturdy as the XOs) > > Getting the touch screen and multi-touch capabilities in linux are > > seemingly a problem here. > > If anyone is working on the linux/environment configuration for the new > XOs, > > would love to get some technical guidance for this.. > > Sugar is already compiled and known working for ARMv7 hardfp via the > Fedora project and downstream OLPC. The Fedora stack would happily > work on this device and all we would need is a kernel, a Xorg driver > as possibly a touchscreen driver. If the tablet is based on the > AllWinner A1x CPUs I'm already working on getting Fedora support so it > shouldn't be hard to extend the support to the tablet. > > All the userspace is already done as you can use the existing Fedora > ARMv7 hardfp userspace without any problems. > > There's probably better places to discuss this as it's kind of > offtopic for this list. Archives and details to subscribe to the > Fedora ARM list are here [1] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm That SOC uses a Mali400 I believe. Xorg drivers do exist for it. -Jon
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