On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:04:51PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > >> >> > Hi All, >> >> > I just saw these ARM9 based Archos devices on LinuxDevices. They're sub $200 >> >> > so might be a worth while target for Fedora support as they're relatively >> >> > cheap. >> >> > http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Archos-Home-Tablets/?kc=rss >> >> > Cheers, >> >> > Peter >> >> > >> >> >> >> They are slated for release next month and I already have plans to >> >> pick up the $179 model as I'm always short on cash but would love >> >> something to hack on and I think this would be a justified expense. I >> >> have plans to use the tablet as my Linux/Fedora embedded/ARM learning >> >> platform so I can't promise much in terms of results, but the end goal >> >> would definitely be to have fedora running on there with some sort of >> >> graphical environment (I'm thinking maybe KDE since it has a really >> >> good on screen keyboard, but I'm open to suggestion). >> > >> > I think the floodgates are about to open on many categories of ARM >> > devices. I wonder if this thing has the RAM to run Fedora well, though? >> > >> > -Chris >> > >> >> RAM is a really good point, I think it will be in the ballpark of 256 >> (plus or minus a bit). Also, I'd like to open up the conversation >> about version of ARM we as a SIG want to support as the efforts start >> to ramp up while targeting popular devices. I think ARMv9 might be a >> little too aggressive but are there any devices that are still >> prominent that are ARMv5? Would it be possible (or even feasible) to >> maintain ARMv5, ARMv7, and ARMv9 in parallel and treat them as >> separate architectures? > > Note that "ARM9" (note the lack of v) is a particular implementation > of version N of the ARM architecture specification, while "ARMvN" is > version N of the ARM architecture specficiation. There is no ARMv9 > at this point, and even ARMv8 hasn't been published yet. > Yeah, I realized that after I posted. I'm still learning my way around ARM as a whole and I'm only a few chapters into my embedded linux book. I still don't own an arm board yet, something else I'm working on changing. Sorry about that. I think ARMv5 is still a solid target all things considered and since it was mentioned to me that the SheevaPlug is ARMv5 (and is quite popular to the best of my knowledge) -AdamM -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
