Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing Xorg for ARM

[Alexey Eromenko]

The people at sunxi ML probably already have Allwinner-based products.
Sending them a cubietruck won't change much.

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 06:13:22PM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Alexey, and I'm interested in having ARM CubieTruck
>> hardware well supported by Debian for desktop (KDE) use.
>>
>> CubieTruck is an ARM mini-PC aka "Liliputer", based on AllWinner A20
>> processor + 2 GB RAM + 8 GB flash + VGA (!) port + SATA + Ethernet + WiFi,
>> making it good enough for a real desktop.
>>
>> CubieTruck
>> http://cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubietruck-cubieboard3-cortex-a7-dual-core-2gb-ram-8gb-flash-with-wifi-bt
>>
>> My goal: It should have a working 2D, HD Video and 3D graphics as well
>> as audio and networking.
>>
>> Some open-source drivers exist:
>> *2D - xf86-video-fbturbo - link: https://github.com/ssvb/xf86-video-fbturbo
>> *Hardware Video Decoder - "CedarX" link:
>> http://linux-sunxi.org/Reverse_Engineering/Cedar_Status
>> *3D - open-source Lima or closed-source Mali drivers.
>>
>> WiFi + Bluetooth - status unknown.
>>
>> If you can - please help stabilize those experimental drivers, and
>> improve ARM device support.
>>
>> I will donate few ARM CubieTruck samples to interested people. You'll
>> need a proof of past patches to any open-source project or community
>> involvement.
>> --
>> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", Debian user. Open-source community
>> member. Israel.
>
> Really? First debian-arm, now xorg-devel? Talk about barking up the
> wrong tree.
>
> Why don't you talk to the relevant projects and relevant people,
> starting with the community at http://www.linux-sunxi.org/
> Info about our mailing list can be found here:
> http://linux-sunxi.org/Mailing_list
>
> Also, the nice people who created the cubieboards are quite active in
> the sunxi community, and they have provided many active community
> members with boards like the cubietruck.
>
> Luc Verhaegen.



-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"