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 wondering 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. Is this sort of interest taboo here ? I would love to see an SHR system for something like this. Andriod is getting better, but frankly, I'd prefer linux based distro any day over it. Oh! I forgot, it also has 1 mini usb, 2 normal USB ports (keyboard anyone!), a mic, front-facing camera with the connections for a rear facing one on the board, a UART output, SIM slot, TF card slot, audio out and video out.Seems to have pretty much covered everything out there. Disclaimer : I have nothing to do with Embest. Just thought I'd let the community now. They claim to be 'open' - maybe the community can see if they truly are. So, what do you think? Chaitanya
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