On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:06:34 -0800 (PST) chaitanya <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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) I am no expert but I believe that the beagleboard openembedded might be a good place to start if you want to use OE on the MID. But I would also expect that a plain SHR might run on it (May need an extra X11 server and there are quite a few things that don't work in Android, whose will also have to be fixed) > 2. Is this sort of interest taboo here ? I don't think so, I would assume that the SHR devels are happy with any one "porting" SHR to another platform. (Even though it is not a phone which is the purpose of a lot of the SHR apps) > > 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. It seems like a quite open piece of hardware, the wifi driver seems to be closed source though. But they do even include a JTAG port (as testpoints/smd pads). All in all a lot more open than my ageing Nokia 770 or the very nice looking Archos tablets. > So, what do you think? > > Chaitanya > It will most likely require a lot of work to get it running perfectly.. It is a shame that it can't make a phone call (the 3G module probably can only handle data). But maybe some day some one finds/creates a mini PCIe module that allows for voice calles to be made. (Then we would still need a FSO driver/backend for that) -- Visti Andresen _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
