Hi, I was looking at arowboat.org - which is a project at getting Android working on all TI OMAP series boards and I saw a link to opensourcemid.org. Apparently, Embest (who also make the DevKit 8000 - a beagle board like board) have made a 7" MID with GPS, camera, mini PCIe (they have a WCDMA module), WiFi and bluetooth running on OMAP 3530. I ordered a device and I find that :-
1. It's built quite well 2. It's responsive and fast (running android 2.1 as of now) 3. The hardware schematics are available online 4. The source code for kernel 2.6.29, x-loader and u-boot are also available online 5. It has a lot of space between the board and the casing - I'm thinking mods like the Freerunner Navigation board 6. The company seems responsive enough I'm now looking at getting a custom kernel (something newer) running on it. Also, I was aondering how do I get SHR ported onto such a device? I have the entire openembedded based SHR build system (something I've been using to build stuff for the FreeRunner) with me - but I'm not sure how to go about changing the target system. So here are my questions :- 1. How do I port SHR to this device (or any other for that matter) 2. Would any other distribution in the community be interested? 3. How do I get freesmartphone.org guys etc interested? 4. Is this sort of interest taboo here ;-) I've read enough threads about the next device - but I haven't seen anything remotely open and available at a decent price till now. Maybe I need enlightening - but this device seems interesting enough. And it does give me a new system to build on. I would love to see an SHR / Qt based system for something like this. Andriod is getting better, but frankly, I'd prefer linux based distro any day over it. So, what do you think? Chaitanya -- View this message in context: http://openmoko-public-mailinglists.1958.n2.nabble.com/Interesting-new-Open-Hardware-how-do-I-build-shr-for-it-tp5783703p5783703.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community