[Arm-netbook] passthrough, a20 and rk3288 cards

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Thu Feb 23 16:30:05 GMT 2017


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.

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