[Arm-netbook] Marvell Armada and Other ARM Open hardware Software News

[Bari Ari]

On 08/31/2011 07:35 PM, Bari Ari wrote:
> Another possible ARM solution for open hardware might be some of the
> Marvell Armada's ARM v6/v7:
>
> http://www.marvell.com/processors/
>
> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/09/marvells-tri-core-chip-has-near-ps3-level-graphics.ars
>
> The OLPC XO-1.75 project received a lot of money and open source support
> from Marvell with the Armada 610:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/olpc-gets-56-million-from-marvell-to-build-android-tablet.ars
>
> http://www.marvell.com/processors/applications/armada_600/
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-1.75
>
> The GPU cores are by Vivante and not PowerVR.
>
> http://www.vivantecorp.com/mrvl.html
>
> Marvell was interested in open source 3D Linux drivers. I'll check on
> their current state.
>
>
I just got some updates. Well it looks like things have changed in the 
past few months. The Armada 610 docs won't be public for quite some time 
and only the 2D drivers will be public.

"Nevermind"

-Bari