[Arm-netbook] Mele A2000 - is it wireless N? Can video decoding be offloaded to the GPU

[Henrik Nordström]

fre 2012-05-11 klockan 19:32 +0200 skrev Craig Whitcombe:

> Can someone confirm if the Mele A2000 has wireless N or not?

To my best understanding A2000 is functionally equivalent to A1000, only
with a different external case.

The wireless on A1000 is an RTL8188CUS USB module. The antenna is a
crappy pcb trace and it's most likely worthwhile to look into adding an
external antenna. The PCB have pads for soldering an antenna cable but i
think you may also need to move a capacistor to cange from internal to
external antenna.

> Also, will the GPU eventually be usable by the likes of XBMC for video
> decoding.

Video decoding is done by the VPU (Video Processng Unit). There is
libraries for accessing the VPU but mainly targeting Android and there
is very limited GNU/Linux support. Plus it's all closed proprietary with
no stated license and no public datasheet.

There may be a solution to this eventually, but hard to say when (if
ever).

Regards
Henrik