Well, one of my long time dream is to have an arm based hacker laptop that I have printed (CNC whatever) and designed, and can use with my beloved Fedora - of course when upgrade comes, simply I replace the complete board - and I have new system. Sadly this is only a dream yet. If I would like to have normal-ish multitasking (not so intensive one), that surely requires more than 1 gig ram. I don't have huge needs, just a silent hacked laptop that based on arm and doesn't want to die when I open a Firefox, or bunch of libreoffice docs that I usually travel with, and of course can hack on ARM. If I look around most of the allwinner boards are really mixed bag. The iMX boards are good, but not all is usable to be a base a kind of netbook - as very rare to have LVDS connector on board... Other thing is the battery support - eg. I was really surprised about the Cubietruck that has direct LiPo battery support, but they forgot to have the LCD connector support as it has been on the Cubieboard 2. Zoltan 2014-02-11 14:43 GMT+01:00 Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 2014-02-11 13:31, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: >> >> Yes, you are right, but I'm getting more and more deeply buried under >> within low cost arm boards - and when I try to select one - well >> simply I can't because not really supported within Fedora, or the >> board design forgets to include some things. Mostly confusing that >> there are no boards that is fully open source or have enough power at >> least reach a netbook level computing. > > > Can you define what you mean by "netbook level computing"? If you > are aiming for >= Atom N270, then any Cortex A9 or better reaches > that level. Nvidia recently open sourced the Tegra drivers, so > anything based on that should fit the requirements. Vivante GPUs > have, AFAIK, open source drivers, as do Mali based ones. The only > one that has no accelerated support is PowerVR. > > > Gordan > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm -- PGP: 06853DF7 _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
