[Arm-netbook] ATX motherboard

Peter Steenbergen p.steenbergen at j1nx.nl
Wed Oct 17 13:21:27 BST 2012


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Valery Yundin <yu.valery+arm at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 17 October 2012 13:39, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> The big problem, that still unsolved, is who will write GNU/Linux
> drivers?
> >
> >  that will be taken care of.  it didn't take long to get 8 OSes
> > up-and-running for the Mele A1000, did it?
>
> There is still no documentation for the major parts of the SoC.
> Everything is based on the released/leaked code + some guessing. If
> something is broken (like was SATA or some features of NIC) there is
> not way of fixing it.
>
> Compare for instance, with the level of documentation provided by
> Texas Instruments for their chips.
>

And there is still no working Xorg driver for the Mali. If you want to have
a serious desktop environment you need to render the desktop using the GPU
not CPU.
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