Re: [Sugar-devel] OLPC OS on Zync Z930 Tablet
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 Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] OLPC OS on Zync Z930 Tablet
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: 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 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] OLPC OS on Zync Z930 Tablet
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.. On 23 November 2012 02:41, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, a Google News Alert just pointed me to this thread over on the XDA developer forums where someone working for an NGO in India is trying to figure out whether it's possible to get Sugar running on a low-cost tablet: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005715 Not sure whether anyone has ever tried something similar but given the ever-improving ARM support of Fedora I thought someone here might be able to help the guy out. I can think of two ways this could possibly work. One is to dual boot so that the entire Fedora+Sugar stack lives on a storage medium and the tablet boots into it. The other is to reuse the Linux part of the Android stack, but to run a different upper stack like how Ubuntu on Android works ( http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android). A similar approach is used with Debian on Android where the Debian system lives in a chroot. http://evilzone.org/android/debian-on-android/ cheers, Sameer Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Regards, Johnson Chetty ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
