[Arm-netbook] Intro & questions

[Haakon Stende]

Jo could use debian testing wheezy  it has an armhf build.

Håkon

2012/6/18 Jock Tanner <tanner.of.kha at gmail.com>

> Hello and good TotD, dear listers!
>
> Let me introduce myself a bit. I'm a sysadmin & computer enthusiast
> from Khabarovsk, Russia.
>
> For a long time I had a itching idea to fiddle with something non-x86.
> Recently I bought a Mele 2000 from Tom Cubie (thank you again, Tom).
> Reading rhombus-tech site and this list's archives gave some results:
> now I have a working system running armel Debian port, with most
> drivers in place: USB, wired & wireless (ath9k_htc) network, display
> framebuffer, NAND, HID. This far I haven't try SATA and sound, though
> they seem ready to go.
>
> Still I have some questions.
>
> 1. X11 with fbdev driver is stable but quite slow. Is there an
> accelerated driver binary I can download?
>
> 2. Surprisingly I can not get a console output on framebuffer, while
> fbdev is working fine. I lost a couple of days resolving this matter,
> mainly because I whanted to push first things first, and also because
> I thought that both console and fbdev uses the same mechanism to
> access the framebuffer, so if console is broken, fbdev should be
> broken too. Apparently I was wrong. But is there any clarification on
> this matter? Hope of fixing?
>
> 3. As I can understand, Debian armel is targeted on ARM6 cores with no
> FPU/SIMD. A10's architecture is way more advanced, since it has VFPv3
> and NEON instruction subsets. What is the easiest way to get an
> optimized set of binaries? Maybe you can suggest another linux
> distribution or repository? Or should I just fetch sources of some
> critical binaries and cross-compile it? E. g. fbdev server will
> probably move windows faster if compiled with NEON support.
>
> Then let me say I'm very happy to join this community, thanks and good
> luck to all of you developers, testers, and users.
>
> Hoping for answers,
> Tanner
>
> P. S. Sorry for my english 's being far from perfect.
>
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