[Arm-netbook] passthrough, a20 and rk3288 cards

[Michael Howard]

On 22/02/2017 14:11, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ---
> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Michael Howard
> <mike at dewberryfields.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 21/02/2017 23:19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 21. February 2017 21.16.54 Eric Duhamel wrote:
>>>>> On February 21, 2017 3:52:12 AM PST, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
>>>> <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>>>>>> btw i didn't hear from anyone about the offer to send out
>>>>>> pre-production cards.
>>>>> I'm tempted but I have nothing to bring to the Linux effort; zero
>>>>> experience hacking or installing the kernel and not much time to learn.
>>>> I'm probably not the kind of person to bring much to the table, either,
>>>> but
>>>> what kind of equipment would one need to actually attempt anything with
>>>> such a
>>>> card at this point?
>>>    a standard 12v dc power supply with a 5.5mm pin-positive jack,
>>> usb-otg and micro hdmi cables, and a vga monitor.
>>>
>>>    the main thing i need from people before i send them $300 to $350
>>> worth of equipment is a 100% committment that they'll be doing active
>>> development of some kind which helps the other backers directly or
>>> indirectly, or helps further the goals of the eoma68 project.
>>>
>>>    u-boot development, kernel development, os preparation, packaging,
>>> upstreaming - anything like that.
>>>
>>> l.
>>>
>>>
>> I'd be happy to put work into os prep, packaging (desktop environment - I
>> package up Trininty for my ARM devices here) and anything else that might be
>> helpful. I can't add my name to the list, I'm not registered.
> added.  i *really* like trinity desktop as it's amazingly lightweight
> and highly functional.  i may actually put it as the default instead
> of xfce.
>
>   i have it installed and tested on one of the microsd cards, it works
> really well: if you could test it out to make sure it's functional
> that would be _really_ handy.
>
>   btw if you've not got a server where you can upload packages as a
> repo i'm sure one can be found somewhere.
>
>
I have server capability to host packages.

I'm a big fan of trinity too, behaves really well on the ARM devices 
I've used.

-- 
Mike Howard