2010/9/4 Narendra Sisodiya <narendra@narendrasisodiya.com>


2010/9/4 Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>

lör 2010-09-04 klockan 00:36 +0530 skrev Narendra Sisodiya:



> I was talking about generics steps and existing work.

It's hard to speak about generic steps here. But afaik no efforts have
been put into making a Fedora ARM Tablet edition if that is what you
wonder. But Fedora in general do contain all the stuff you need for a
nice tablet experience.

The hardest part in getting a new device running is getting a working
kernel + bootloader access.

The CPU is Marvell Aspen 88AP166.
But as far as, I know that Debian and fedora has ARM port. If there is a CPU which is based on ARM, then it should work. I know this is not completely true.



I am not worrying about bootloader as I can get development platform.
If I try like -
using virtualbox (ARM) and install fedora ARM over it. installating OLPC desktop interface, removing gnome desktop manager, creating live usb/iso out of this installation. mount liveusb and extract rootfs. now using rootfs  and development platform , I will boot with iso or rootfs.

Does it sound any meaningful ? I am not a expert in this kind of job.
 
 
After that getting the graphics drivers
running proper (kernel + xorg, but I suppose most if not all drives the
graphics as a framebuffer device which should enable the Xorg fbdev
driver to be used.

Many of the Android based tablets available on the market have been
pretty closed down, with no hardware documentation or published kernel
sources.  Some even using digital signatures making the bootloader
reject "unauthorized" code. I do not think any of them are supported by
the standard kernel.org kernel source, all requiring extra kernel
patches.

Via have however started to publish their reference Android kernel
sources which should work on most of the Via based tablets, and some of
the locked down bootloaders mentioned above have been cracked open..
hopefully that kernel is good enough for running Fedora. Have not tried.

Regards
Henrik




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