[Arm-netbook] Chipsets?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater
<amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Luke,
>
> Can you reconsider the MIPS32 and Ingenic? The Creator C120 and C140 from Imagination use a very similar chip
> - the video chip has some non-free drivers but there are alos Libre drivers, I believe.

 i am NOT going to be using PowerVR.  imgtec have caused countless
problems for over 15 years.  every company that's ever distributed a
PowerVR GPU inside their processor has regretted it.

 i do have the EOMA68-jz4775 board available - i just haven't had time
to investigate the boot process.

> https://imgtec.com/contact-us/ should have contact details.

 if they provide full source code for all PowerVR GPU drivers, i'll
look at the C120 and C140.


> It is certainly feasible to install Debian on this: no other distribution is supporting this chipset any more,

 i know.  it's one of the reasons why we didn't pursue the
EOMA68-jz4775 for this campaign: too much work involved.

l.