2011-05-14, 19:06
madmalkav Wrote:Anyone have tried any made any try with an Amlogic based device? I just discovered that SoC producer because some interesting price/performance tablets using their chips and there seems to be some dirty cheap boxes that can be fun to try to hack. If will prefer not to buy one of those blindy but if noone have tried them I probably will go for it and see what I can get.
Amlogic have their own OpenLinux Arm Wiki with lots of info, don't know if it was setup by them (their commercial site has next to nothing), the platform section seems to imply they are packing Cortex A9 with Mali400 on some of the chips.
The Amlogic AML8726-M is a Cortex A9 with Mali400 GPU , there might be some stuff out there, some of the known Amlogic media boxes on the market are older chipsets based off the 86xx series.
Some Amlogic players offer the source code like the Ferguson Ariva HDplayer 200a.