[Arm-netbook] Regarding Improv, EOMA68, Free Software and Open Hardware.

[Tom Cubie]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Henrik Nordström
<henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> tor 2014-06-26 klockan 08:59 +0000 skrev joem:
>
>> Quite a few distros have been made on the Cubieboard
>> awaiting release that will run on EOMA68.
>> It would be good if KDE plasma can be working
>> on EOMA68 and a touch LCD.
>> Or better still, cubieboard and touch LCD
>> because that can transfer to EOMA with just
>> a few minor changes, whilst in parallel
>> Mr. Cubie (Tom)
>
> Tom is no longer involved in Cubietech afaik.

Confirmed.

>
> In personally I prefer Olimex boards for development. A little bigger,
> but all open and more I/O exposed. Plus a much wider range of boards
> available depending on your needs.
>
>>  reaps some benefits from
>> Plasma/touch LCD working.
>> Any ideas anyone for costs to make it happen?
>> (Paypal ready question!)
>
> If it can run ontop of Android MALI drivers then not much should be
> missing.
>
> The state for non-Android GNU/Linux MALI drivers is a bit of a mess
> unfortunately. Getting this in production shape requires cooperation of
> Allwinner and maybe ARM as well.
>
> LIMA is doing good progress, but will likely take a while before it's
> capable of running Plasma.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
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