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Re: Porting to generic brand tablets

 

Awesome. I wonder what the cheapest tablet in australia is now.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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