Re: Fwd: [Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform

2013-12-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
line grass must be much greener? What comparable SoC is there with (more) complete mainline support? Luc Verhaegen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: Good ARM board for Debian?

2013-12-22 Thread Luc Verhaegen
ty. We have a chance to get fully free, fully functioning hardware as the projects to RE the GPU and VPU are well underway. There is simply nothing out there that can match that atm. So buy an olimex board, it's way better supported than anything else out there. Luc Verhaegen. -- To

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-12-08 Thread Luc Verhaegen
emed to me > to be a major step forward for Debian on the A20 to have a mainline > fully OSS kernel. If you are running mainline, then you do not get to complain about bits or pieces not working. I would've thought that that was clear. Luc Verhaegen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: recommend a netbook for Debian deployment?

2013-11-06 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:19:51AM +, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > - On 7 November 2013 04:41, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > >> While the open hardware projects are very interesting, anytime soon I > >> can only get the dx.com etc Chinese stuff. And the netbooks that have

Re: recommend a netbook for Debian deployment?

2013-11-06 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:16:05PM +, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > On 6 November 2013 23:06, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > >> Cool. But I guess the A10 GPU (Mali400) is pretty basic compared to > >> the aforementioned PowerVR? > > > > Not really. Mali400 i

Re: recommend a netbook for Debian deployment?

2013-11-06 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:08:38PM +, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > On 6 November 2013 18:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > Cool. But I guess the A10 GPU (Mali400) is pretty basic compared to > the aforementioned PowerVR? Not really. Mali400 is a pretty respectable package still, and i

Re: recommend a netbook for Debian deployment?

2013-11-06 Thread Luc Verhaegen
t; MALI can do on the exact same hardware. and that's *without* having > done any other special kinds of optimisations. I am not sure who luc verbeghen is, or where he found this 30% increase. But luc verhaegen got 6%, and he expects another 50% over the X11 binary by integrating the disp

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
al code included, which will only have limited use. At the same time, the difficult bits will have seen less love as well, and no-one will have won anything. And then, a few years down the road, upstream will do what they did with telechips. Luc Verhaegen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm

Re: Donation of ARM CubieTruck to anyone interested in developing ARM-Debian-desktop

2013-11-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
l hard on getting kernel code working and clean, and some bits do make it upstream as they become useful. The enormity of this task should not be underestimated, especially as new hw tends to come out in 6 month intervals and the whole thing is ran by volunteers. But again, linux

Re: AW: New Arndale board announced

2013-11-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
another person whine about the sorry state of a reverse engineered driver done by people in their spare time, and at the same time see hacks like libhybris (which do seem to get some corporate support) promoted. Luc Verhaegen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org