http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2013-April/007158.html i thought people on here might appreciate knowing that very early "test" / "engineering" samples are to be made available for those brave people who'd like access to them. fedora 18 is already available for allwinner a10 devices so despite this being early, it's been designed to be similar enough to the pre-existing products out there that android booted up on HDMI and USB-OTG first time; getting any other OS up and running, although you will need to do it yourself, will be a very straightforward task. *please note the list of conditions at the above link*. if this is not for you, you'll need to wait for the next phase, which will involve a large enough batch order to warrant payment of $7k to $15k worth of FCC/CE certification fees, aside from anything else. so the decision is up to you. for those people who may not be familiar with the EOMA-68 standard and the rhombus tech project, the goals are several: * invite free software communities to participate every step of the way in the production of mass-volume hardware * help terminate distributor, retailer and factory GPL violations by pre-vetting CPU Cards and SoC vendors, with a very simple rule: no source, no sales. * properly stabilise the hell-on-earth situation in the linux kernel wrt ARM products [*1] which device tree was *supposed* to solve [and hasn't, and won't - ever] so this A10 CPU Card is the very *first* CPU Card - the plan is to continue to upgrade CPU Cards over the next 10 years *without* requiring that a single product that's EOMA-68 compliant needs a redesign *EVER*. i.e. in 10 years time if you buy a flying squirrel now [*2] or any other product that comes after it then in theeeory you should be able to get an arm64 8nm 32-core ARM Cortex 1234 EOMA-68 CPU Card with 64gbyte of RAM running at 4ghz using only 3 watts of power and it should *just work*. ok, maybe not 8nm, maybe not 4ghz but you get the idea :) ok, enough blurb. if you're interested and already have a preorder, please modify it to "1stbatch". if you don't already have one and would like to help support this project then please create an order at: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/orders/ l. links: [*1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/9/617 [*2] appx 35 mins in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHvboGQ8d6I [*] http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/04/12/1833222/rhombus-tech-2nd-revision-a10-eoma68-card-working-samples [*] http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/ [*] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/AllwinerA10 [*] https://github.com/jwrdegoede/sunxi-fedora-scripts _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
