On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:09:33PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Alejandro Mery <am...@geeks.cl> wrote: > >> i don't think they were > >> expecting geeks to be interested, which is the whole damn point! i'm > >> a bit annoyed by the general thinking that "ARM != PC quality" so this > >> is kinda an important message to get across to factories: _yes_ people > >> want standard laptops and netbooks, with loads of RAM etc. just with > >> an ARM CPU, damnit! :) > > > > been "engineering samples"... what about the UART, serial port (even 2 > > pins help a lot) and jtag reachability? =) > > alejandro, i'm really sorry but they just weren't expecting > engineering-types to be interested: they've written out translation > probably of chinese specifications handed to them by a customer, most > likely from a special order of 50,000 units or something, we _just_ > don't know at this stage.
We might be able to help with a re-translation if necessary. > basically when i get mine i'll immediately dismantle it and post > photos, but by ... well... almost already and definitely by tomorrow, > the window of opportunity to get these at cost (and get them this > month) will have passed. > > fortunately we know that they have a chinese version of gOS on it > (2.6.24 kernel), already, otherwise i simply would not be bothering > _at_ all, and certainly wouldn't have sent the message to debian-arm > initially. I'm quite good at getting kernels onto these things. Although it is a bit late for the 2.6.24 merge window if it isn't sorted soon. -- Ben Q: What's a light-year? A: One-third less calories than a regular year. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
