On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 18:13 +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote:
tor 2014-06-26 klockan 08:59 +0000 skrev joem:
Quite a few distros have been made on the Cubieboard awaiting release that will run on EOMA68. It would be good if KDE plasma can be working on EOMA68 and a touch LCD. Or better still, cubieboard and touch LCD because that can transfer to EOMA with just a few minor changes, whilst in parallel Mr. Cubie (Tom)
Tom is no longer involved in Cubietech afaik.
In personally I prefer Olimex boards for development. A little bigger, but all open and more I/O exposed. Plus a much wider range of boards available depending on your needs.
Thank you - will look into evaluating one.
reaps some benefits from Plasma/touch LCD working. Any ideas anyone for costs to make it happen? (Paypal ready question!)
If it can run ontop of Android MALI drivers then not much should be missing.
The state for non-Android GNU/Linux MALI drivers is a bit of a mess unfortunately. Getting this in production shape requires cooperation of Allwinner and maybe ARM as well.
LIMA is doing good progress, but will likely take a while before it's capable of running Plasma.
Its an utter shame the current plan is to let all this drag on.
The mass market for which the EOMA and touch display, and plasma will sell billions of, and which the trolls here have missed during their fierce holy wars of late is fitted to this product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj0CozzsDEY
Personally I don't mind calling Luke, Aaron, Allwinner, ARM and everyone a troll until this problem is repaired. Reading all the stuff posted, they have zero understanding of what they are missing out on.
Still, I got to the stage where Gambas is working on LCD with EOMA68 / Cubieboard and if I find enough time, the touch LCD will work. The gambas GUI software will have to provide what plasma hasn't yet delivered.
The sliding screen effects could probably get implemented by Gambas. If we ask the Gambas community for a graphical control that can do that effect, it would probably get built in.
Luke: I got the latest board costed up and its <$50 per EOMA with 2GB (not going split resources at this stage to make the 1GB). But it comes with a lead balloon MOQ of 2000 for the PCMCIA case because they are only made in Taiwan.