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Am Dienstag, 11. November 2014 01:44:25 CEST schrieb Walter Lapchynski:
Well, boss, what do you say? The majority of arm machines out there are what I would consider "low end" machines. What do you think? I can start assembling people. wxl
Hi Walter, hi to all the other people!Supporting ARM would be awesome, but ARM isn't ARM. There is the RaspPi, which we can't support because it is ARMv6 - Ubuntu only builds for ARMv7 and better. You can compare this to PAE or CMOV. On the other side, there are many ARMv7 devices that _could_ be supported. But even they differ compared to each other. Most devices need the U-Boot bootloader, some other have really exotic boot loaders. Fortunately, most graphic chips like Mali have at least basic support in the mainline kernel.
Conclusion: supporting ARM means in fact: support a small range of devices. AC100 had some Nvidia Tegra chips, so that could be a start. Nvidia is quite open to linux on their boards / tablets. It could even be worth asking them for a tiny bit of help. Another range of devices that could be worth supporting: Allwinner devices. They are common, they are cheap and the best: they can't get bricked by testing. Nearly 100% of them can boot from SD cards, even if you managed to destroy the OS on the internal memory. I have a very cheap Allwinner tablet here and did some experiments in the past, but had not much success. I had Lubuntu running, but no Wifi, no working Touchscreen and so I abandoned it for a while. It has a low-end A10 processor, but if it could be hardware accelerated with newer kernels, it would be quite powerful, compared to the size.
Best regards, Jörn
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