2012-03-24, 21:45
OK, I have found myself a nice and neat project to get myself into touch with ARM and SoC, but thought it would be good to place it here as well. A lot of you guys are far ahead of me and can do whatever I want to do in a lot less time. (I am still doing it for me anyway, as I always need something to play with and learn from )
http://openelec.tv/forum/20-development-...stribution
Most of you know the Raspberry, some of you know the Rhombus-tech EOMA-68 project. (which looks like to fly soon as well)
Anyway.
Allwinner the manufacturer of the Allwinner A1X SoC decided to go fully opensource / GPL compliant. For the people who don't want to wait for the EOMA-68 board (or raspbery-pi for that matter) there is now a STB box made with the same hardware.
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/ha...ele_a1000/
The drivers for the MALI-400 are reversed engineerd, so will be in the end open source as well. And if I read the documentation (user manual) on the following github;
https://github.com/amery/allwinner-a10-video
We will have full hardware decode of all major formats any time soon as well.
Anyway, more info on the OE thread as that is my initial plan. I will start leaning / playing around with the u-boot kernel first (has been a while since my last kernel hacking projects. 2.4.x )
So if anybody of you want a cheap ARM-SoC develepment board which is *unbrickable*. Buy a Mele A1000. (Check the mailing list, Tom from China will shortly open up his alieexpress shop again where you can buy them at $65,-)
http://openelec.tv/forum/20-development-...stribution
Most of you know the Raspberry, some of you know the Rhombus-tech EOMA-68 project. (which looks like to fly soon as well)
Anyway.
Allwinner the manufacturer of the Allwinner A1X SoC decided to go fully opensource / GPL compliant. For the people who don't want to wait for the EOMA-68 board (or raspbery-pi for that matter) there is now a STB box made with the same hardware.
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/ha...ele_a1000/
The drivers for the MALI-400 are reversed engineerd, so will be in the end open source as well. And if I read the documentation (user manual) on the following github;
https://github.com/amery/allwinner-a10-video
We will have full hardware decode of all major formats any time soon as well.
Anyway, more info on the OE thread as that is my initial plan. I will start leaning / playing around with the u-boot kernel first (has been a while since my last kernel hacking projects. 2.4.x )
So if anybody of you want a cheap ARM-SoC develepment board which is *unbrickable*. Buy a Mele A1000. (Check the mailing list, Tom from China will shortly open up his alieexpress shop again where you can buy them at $65,-)