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Re: Porting to generic brand tablets

 

There's also rockchip opening up:
http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/07/12/linux-rockchip-developers-community-up-rockchip-development-boards-coming-soon/
and one product that uses it (apart from all those mini android PCs like the MK808 or MK908), is the Hp slate 7:

http://liliputing.com/2013/07/hp-drops-starting-price-of-slate-7-table-to-140.html

> From: noskcaj@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:16:40 +1000
> To: coder543@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting to generic brand tablets
> 
> ok. That's reminded me, the imx6 chips have open-sorce drivers and a
> community behind them. Now if i could find them in a tablet rather
> than my hiapad hi802 (which i've not got working)...
> 
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > yeah, sorry for the lack of response. It's too early on to know. if you
> > bought it, you might succeed or you might fail. Chinese tablets typically
> > contain poorly documented chips.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Josh
> >
> > On Jul 14, 2013 4:08 PM, "Jackson Doak" <noskcaj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, I'll wait for something cheap to already have it ported or for a
> >> Chinese place to run ubuntu touch
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Jeremy Morales <ajaxx20020@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >> > You would need to first port CM10.1 to it.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Jackson Doak <noskcaj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> How difficult/time consuming would it be to port ubuntu touch to a
> >> >> generic $60 tablet off ebay? i'm looking for a cheap one to test
> >> >> ubuntu on and integrate in a computer case.
> >> >>
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