On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Luke :) hii paul, nice to meet you > That all sounds very interesting! I would definitely be interested in > getting involved & helping out, and I imagine others at Imagination > may be too! _great_. > We have recently begun releasing a board based around the jz4780[1] so > have been doing a fair bit of work on that SoC, yehhh i have been waiting a long time for ingenic to come up with a SoC that has reasonable (i'd prefer great!) specs that does *not* need proprietary libraries, so i have avoided the jz4780 although the GPU has been successfully reverse-engineered. what i am really looking forward to is when ingenic come out with a quad-core FSF-Endorseable SoC: that's when the fun really starts. > are familiar with some > of the older SoCs in the jz47xx series and I believe should have access > to some other jz4775 based boards. There is also the jz4770 based GCW > zero project[2] http://www.gcw-zero.com/specifications very cool. you might be interested to know that there is someone creating an eoma68 games console base unit, with quite high specs (capacitive touchpanel, 5in 1280x720 LCD). > Did you have anything concrete in mind that would be helpful at this > stage, or are you more judging interest? bit of both. background: with 4 CPU cards coming out (ICubeCorp IC1T, Allwinner A20, Allwinner A33 and Ingenic JZ4775) in the next few months and an upcoming (first) crowdfunding campaign i simply won't have time to get everything done myself, so i will kinda need some help. so it's a "yes let people know the project exists, see who's out there, who'd like some cool early hardware" and also a "these are the things that need doing, who'd like to help" enquiry. and on that list, getting *a* kernel and OS installed is right at the top! literally this will be a bare board, direct from the prototyping company. then begins the task of working out if the hardware's good by learning at the same time how to get an OS onto the card *at all* :) so that's at the micro-level: at the larger level, to give some perspective, the goal of the rhombus tech project is to create desirable mass-volume affordable environmentally-conscious computing appliances, and inviting software libre developers to be involved with that process at every step of the way. it's quite an ambitious long-term project and the EOMA68 standard is a key part of that, being designed to last at least a decade. l.
