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Army Core Volunteers?
caminati:
--- Quote from: roberts on August 06, 2012, 12:36:09 PM ---If you vote "yes" please indicate if you are willing to help develop, i.e., compiling sources, or if you wish to help test targeted construction kits.
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I voted yes. As stated elsewhere, I am already running other distros on my allwinner a10 tablet; I compiled (and cross-compiled) kernel and u-boot, so count on me for any assignment.
I patched together a wiki page about my experiences:
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/ainol_novo_elf_7/
Btw, I could spread the word about this poll among allwinner users community. Or would you consider that an improper bias?
xyz-worx:
Some weeks ago I got a Freescale iMX53 Quick-Start board populated with an iMX535 (Cortex-A8),
1GB RAM, running @ 1GHz, including a dedicated power-management-IC. . For further information look here:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53QSB
It comes with a board support package on micro-sd card, from which it boots an Ubuntu 11.04.
In fact it is not as cheep as an Raspberry Pi, but the capabilities of this board are much higher.
For instance there is a SATA port as well as a JTAG port for professional debugging. Also VGA and
LVDS outputs for video are present.
Up to now I'm digging into the hardware features of this processor. Next step will be to learn about
the boot process - as far as I know, u-boot is used. There are so many peripheral devices inside, which
have to be unveiled.
From my point of view, a taller linux system than Ubuntu might be a good alternative way to run this board.
Regards
xyz-worx
tinypoodle:
What does "taller linux system than Ubuntu" mean?
roberts:
Guys, thanks for your input. I will post my full strategy later. For now I will state that I too have no serial console ability for Allwinner.
Therefore my plan is to start with something that does, rpi. Building up a solid working Core root file system. With rpi I have basically completed this task. Since Allwinner has broken fbconsole, there will be no base Core; TinyCore yes. There again using the rpi to segue to full rootfs of TinyCore. Then with such known rootfs target Allwinner. More to come.
netnomad:
hi roberts,
sounds good!
i'm looking forward to test especially simple core on rpi, lean and clean.
... and then test to enhance it in single steps from package to package
thank you for your commitment.
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