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Have you managed to put debian on it? At this price, these prebuilt tablets are much cheaper than attempting to build something from the ground up(as with Beag
by sireat 16y ago
Have you managed to put debian on it?
At this price, these prebuilt tablets are much cheaper than attempting to build something from the ground up(as with BeagleBoard which admitedly runs a much more powerful CPU)
- elblanco 16y agoHeck, I'm not even sure I can find just the display for these prices.
- angusgr 16y agoNo Debian yet, all I've done so far is put in a serial console to watch it boot (only had it 3 days.) There's a photo of it running debian here, and some details for running debian on another device with the same SoC architecture (WM8505): http://slatedroid.com/index.php?topic=152.0 http://slatedroid.com/index.php?topic=152.0 The easy way is undoubtedly to use debootstrap and keep the current kernel it's running. I think that's more or less an easy and given possibility, because once you have the serial port connected you have a root console (or presumably you can unlock root access in software via Android.) Building a kernel as well may be harder. From what I can tell, and it's hard to tell because most people (including Eken) aren't releasing source at the moment (sigh), this may be hard because of a bunch of proprietary M8505 modules in the current kernel. Not sure yet, though.
- angusgr 16y agoOver the BeagleBoard (and like), the appeal for me (given I'm ditching the screen) is that I don't live in the US. The price of the BeagleBoard plus shipping to Australia makes a big difference. The M001 is $99 including shipping anywhere in the world.