[Arm-netbook] passthrough, a20 and rk3288 cards

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM, zap <zapper at openmailbox.org> wrote:
> On 02/23/2017 03:40 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> great.  cando.  archlinux works well.  parabola's based on it.
>> ---
>> 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:
>>>>> ---
>>>>> 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.
> does lxde work well on arm devices also? I am guessing yes but I don't
> know for sure.

 yyep.