On 1 March 2012 00:40, Subodh Nijsure snijsure@grid-net.com wrote:
Hello,
(Pardon if this is out-of-scope for linaro-dev mailing list )
Is there anybody trying to get Linaro to run on "cheap" AuraSlate (http://www.auraslate.com/) tablet? If you are would be nice to collaborate...
I like their website: Mischief encouraged. Hackers welcome.
They should post the hardware schematic on the site or at least some indication what the SoC is. If its one of our member's SoCs then it may be interesting.
This is the only affordable ARM tablet that I have found with bootrom so I am trying to figure out how one gets started running Linaro on brand new hardware... Any specific page I should look at on https://wiki.linaro.org?
Regards, -Subodh Nijsure
(NOT affiliated with AuraSlate in any way)
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2012/3/1 Zach Pfeffer zach.pfeffer@linaro.org:
On 1 March 2012 00:40, Subodh Nijsure snijsure@grid-net.com wrote:
Hello,
(Pardon if this is out-of-scope for linaro-dev mailing list )
Is there anybody trying to get Linaro to run on "cheap" AuraSlate (http://www.auraslate.com/) tablet? If you are would be nice to collaborate...
I like their website: Mischief encouraged. Hackers welcome.
They should post the hardware schematic on the site or at least some indication what the SoC is. If its one of our member's SoCs then it may be interesting.
http://auraslate.freeforums.org/post193.html#p193
The purchase page would indicate that to get the sources (to the kernel, as a most important point), you'd need to pay them for the CD:
http://www.auraslate.com/page2.html
That doesn't sound too friendly to hackers...
A bit worried about this as well:
http://auraslate.freeforums.org/development-t29.html
On 03/01/2012 08:00 AM, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
2012/3/1 Zach Pfefferzach.pfeffer@linaro.org:
On 1 March 2012 00:40, Subodh Nijsuresnijsure@grid-net.com wrote:
Hello,
(Pardon if this is out-of-scope for linaro-dev mailing list )
Is there anybody trying to get Linaro to run on "cheap" AuraSlate (http://www.auraslate.com/) tablet? If you are would be nice to collaborate...
I like their website: Mischief encouraged. Hackers welcome.
They should post the hardware schematic on the site or at least some indication what the SoC is. If its one of our member's SoCs then it may be interesting.
http://auraslate.freeforums.org/post193.html#p193
The purchase page would indicate that to get the sources (to the kernel, as a most important point), you'd need to pay them for the CD:
I know this is besides the point of making opensource code available without fees etc.
But fwiw, CD contains all the android source code to build android OTA zip package..
-Subodh
2012/3/1 Subodh Nijsure snijsure@grid-net.com:
On 03/01/2012 08:00 AM, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
2012/3/1 Zach Pfefferzach.pfeffer@linaro.org:
On 1 March 2012 00:40, Subodh Nijsuresnijsure@grid-net.com wrote:
Hello,
(Pardon if this is out-of-scope for linaro-dev mailing list )
Is there anybody trying to get Linaro to run on "cheap" AuraSlate (http://www.auraslate.com/) tablet? If you are would be nice to collaborate...
I like their website: Mischief encouraged. Hackers welcome.
They should post the hardware schematic on the site or at least some indication what the SoC is. If its one of our member's SoCs then it may be interesting.
http://auraslate.freeforums.org/post193.html#p193
The purchase page would indicate that to get the sources (to the kernel, as a most important point), you'd need to pay them for the CD:
I know this is besides the point of making opensource code available without fees etc.
But fwiw, CD contains all the android source code to build android OTA zip package..
Oh sure, I think distributing sources through disks and charging a nominal fee for it is allowed by all the usual open source licenses so that's not something that can be argued over.
The problem arises after you have hacked on the kernel. What happens to your changes? Is someone going to integrate them to the upgrades? In fact, how *will* you get upgrades for the sources? There's some upgrades to the sw posted on the forum but I guess that's just the images. Does one buy updates to the sources too?
Reading through the forum a bit more, it actually seems that the hope is that the community will take the ball on software maintenance. Which is not great, since on the forums it's indicated that no TRM will be made available -> kernel development is impaired.
But now we are already very very far into off-topic ;)
Hi All, Glad to see auraslate being discussed here! I just got one a couple of days back. Pretty interesting device. I would be glad to try something on it.
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Kalle Vahlman kalle.vahlman@gmail.com wrote:
2012/3/1 Subodh Nijsure snijsure@grid-net.com:
On 03/01/2012 08:00 AM, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
2012/3/1 Zach Pfefferzach.pfeffer@linaro.org:
On 1 March 2012 00:40, Subodh Nijsuresnijsure@grid-net.com wrote:
Hello,
(Pardon if this is out-of-scope for linaro-dev mailing list )
Is there anybody trying to get Linaro to run on "cheap" AuraSlate (http://www.auraslate.com/) tablet? If you are would be nice to collaborate...
I like their website: Mischief encouraged. Hackers welcome.
They should post the hardware schematic on the site or at least some indication what the SoC is. If its one of our member's SoCs then it may be interesting.
http://auraslate.freeforums.org/post193.html#p193
The purchase page would indicate that to get the sources (to the kernel, as a most important point), you'd need to pay them for the CD:
I know this is besides the point of making opensource code available without fees etc.
But fwiw, CD contains all the android source code to build android OTA zip package..
Oh sure, I think distributing sources through disks and charging a nominal fee for it is allowed by all the usual open source licenses so that's not something that can be argued over.
The problem arises after you have hacked on the kernel. What happens to your changes? Is someone going to integrate them to the upgrades? In fact, how *will* you get upgrades for the sources? There's some upgrades to the sw posted on the forum but I guess that's just the images. Does one buy updates to the sources too?
Yes I am a bit worried about that post that you pointed out (didnt get a convincing answer, hoping to poke them more... ;-)). The CDs do have GB code in there but only ROM for ICS. I am just starting to work with the Android in terms of ROM and packaging. It would be great to have linaro on it!
I did some research and realised that it is an AMlogic chip. Here is the info regarding that. http://auraslate.freeforums.org/processor-optional-features-t55.html
Appreciate if someone can through some light into AMLogic stuff.
Reading through the forum a bit more, it actually seems that the hope is that the community will take the ball on software maintenance. Which is not great, since on the forums it's indicated that no TRM will be made available -> kernel development is impaired.
But now we are already very very far into off-topic ;)
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