Jock, for point number two please see:
<a href="https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner/issues/6">https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner/issues/6</a> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 June 2012 05:59, Haakon Stende <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stende@gmail.com" target="_blank">stende@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Jo could use debian testing wheezy it has an armhf build.<br><br>Håkon<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2012/6/18 Jock Tanner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tanner.of.kha@gmail.com" target="_blank">tanner.of.kha@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello and good TotD, dear listers!<br>
<br>
Let me introduce myself a bit. I'm a sysadmin & computer enthusiast<br>
from Khabarovsk, Russia.<br>
<br>
For a long time I had a itching idea to fiddle with something non-x86.<br>
Recently I bought a Mele 2000 from Tom Cubie (thank you again, Tom).<br>
Reading rhombus-tech site and this list's archives gave some results:<br>
now I have a working system running armel Debian port, with most<br>
drivers in place: USB, wired & wireless (ath9k_htc) network, display<br>
framebuffer, NAND, HID. This far I haven't try SATA and sound, though<br>
they seem ready to go.<br>
<br>
Still I have some questions.<br>
<br>
1. X11 with fbdev driver is stable but quite slow. Is there an<br>
accelerated driver binary I can download?<br>
<br>
2. Surprisingly I can not get a console output on framebuffer, while<br>
fbdev is working fine. I lost a couple of days resolving this matter,<br>
mainly because I whanted to push first things first, and also because<br>
I thought that both console and fbdev uses the same mechanism to<br>
access the framebuffer, so if console is broken, fbdev should be<br>
broken too. Apparently I was wrong. But is there any clarification on<br>
this matter? Hope of fixing?<br>
<br>
3. As I can understand, Debian armel is targeted on ARM6 cores with no<br>
FPU/SIMD. A10's architecture is way more advanced, since it has VFPv3<br>
and NEON instruction subsets. What is the easiest way to get an<br>
optimized set of binaries? Maybe you can suggest another linux<br>
distribution or repository? Or should I just fetch sources of some<br>
critical binaries and cross-compile it? E. g. fbdev server will<br>
probably move windows faster if compiled with NEON support.<br>
<br>
Then let me say I'm very happy to join this community, thanks and good<br>
luck to all of you developers, testers, and users.<br>
<br>
Hoping for answers,<br>
Tanner<br>
<br>
P. S. Sorry for my english 's being far from perfect.<br>
<br>
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