[Arm-netbook] Good netbook based on Cortex-A9

[Roman Mamedov]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:04:51 +0100
Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:

> > Also I've read enough horror stories about how everything is so
> > awful Linux support-wise on AC100 to not want to deal with such a system
> > myself.
> 
> I'm not sure who you were listening to, but it sounds like you were 
> spoon fed bullshit. All the hardware on the AC100 is very well 
> supported.

I went back to the article I read (in Russian, [1] ). Basically the author
very colorfully described his disgust as he had to deal with the outdated,
half-broken, proprietary, Android-targetted nVidia "software stack" (nvrm_gpu,
nvrm_daemon etc), to even have the most basic hardware working, like
backlight brightness, audio and suspend.

Okay, the article is from October 2010, maybe some things have improved since
then.

[1] http://habrahabr.ru/post/107304/

> I think it's important to strike a reasonable balance between idealism 
> and pragmatism. Otherwise your only option is to get a Yeeloong.

I have an impression that openness-wise the AC100 is especially bad, worse than
e.g. Efika MX, certainly worse than an A10-based netbook, and MUCH worse than
even a random x86 netbook.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Stallman had a printer,
with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."
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