[Arm-netbook] Intro & questions

[Iain Bullard]

Jock, for point number two please see:
https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner/issues/6

On 18 June 2012 05:59, Haakon Stende <stende at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jo could use debian testing wheezy  it has an armhf build.
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> Håkon
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> 2012/6/18 Jock Tanner <tanner.of.kha at gmail.com>
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>> 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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