On 27/08/14 13:05, lkcl . wrote: > 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! > Indeed! >> 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. That's an ambitious list of CPU cards.. > > 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. Hello from me as well. :) > > 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. Ambitious indeed. Hope it kicks off. ZubairLK
