[Arm-netbook] passthrough, a20 and rk3288 cards

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

great.  cando.  archlinux works well.  parabola's based on it.
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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Internet <internet at devpi.de> wrote:
> I also added myself to the list of preorders. I would do hardware
> related stuff, u-boot hacking and I'd really like porting Archlinux ;)
>
> Julius
>
>
> On 22.02.2017 18:28, Michael Howard wrote:
>> On 22/02/2017 14:11, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
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