On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Chris Ball <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > Linux has been running well on ARM for a long long time. >> >> Yeah. In specific, today I got Sugar running on the ARM SoC we'll be >> using for XO-1.75 and XO-3, and it didn't require any porting at all. >> It would have happened yesterday, but I had to work out how to get >> past the Sugar intro/login screen without a keyboard. :-) > > That's cool! A couple of questions.... > > What's the plan for the boot loader, is it planned to use OF still and > port it to the ARM platform or is it planned to use one of the more > mainline ARM bootloaders such as uboot or the like. > > Also what's the plan with the virtual keyboard support in sugar. It > might be worth looking at the MeeGo/Moblin based VKB stuff as a basis. > Its skinnable and supported various inputs via scim and integrates > with that. Let me know if you need more info as I've been packaging > some of this up in Fedora as part of my work with the aforementioned > UIs in Fedora. >
At one point I had tried to evaluate the possible virtual/on-screen keyboards that could be used for Sugar, and at that time it looked like each used their own keyboard layout data format. Something which leverages existing mechanisms like SCIM/M17N/IBus/etc would certainly be an improvement. Could you point me to the source code repo of VKB - I would love to take a look. Best, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
