On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Rick Moen wrote:
That would be the "fully supports the hardware" that Rick mentioned :P
What the Anroid kernel coming with the device will usually do. I wonder how difficult it is to put a "standard" Linux userland (a Linux distribution) on top of it? The "Linuxulator" of FreeBSD works that way, it implements the Linux Kernel API and runs Linux binaries downloaded from Fedora on it, starting with a glibc. The Android kernel shouldn't be too far of from the Linux Kernel.. I finally got my ZaTab mentioned by Chris before, and I wonder what to do with it to get Linux running. I posted on http://zareason.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/the-tablet-challenge.html Cathy confirmed that there is a kernel on http://linux-sunxi.org, and that ZaRerason has KDE developers reachable under freenode.net#zareason I think there is no "standard" Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora etc. able to run on that tablet yet, and I feel quite insecure in ARM wonderland - it looks as the chips are varying a lot. Which ways do you see? On a side - I have seen a "sun4i" architecture before;-) Why "sun"? Regards Peter