Trisquel Multitouch ARM Tablet?
The Linaro Project has a number of linux images.
There are a number of SOC development platforms that support Linux.
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth currently has an Ubuntu phone OS preview, which one can flash to the Google Nexus 7.
Neal Peacock, of Peacock Imports, completed a successful crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo and is selling Chinese commodity ARM-Allwinner A10 tablets (Pengpod 700 and Pengpod 1000) running LXDE (not powerful enough to run Plasma Active well). The Pengpods are made possible in part due to the efforts of the Linux Sunxi Project.
Aaron Seigo, of KDE, on "Luminosity of Free Software" episode 2 recently stated the Vivaldi tablet (Plasma Active) will be released sometime this year and will only use free software hardware drivers. He also welcomed others to sell Vivaldi competitors (free Plasma Acitve ARM tablets).
Maybe a Trisquel Plasma Active ARM tablet in the near future?
As far as I know, it is, today, impossible to get 3D acceleration on ARM with free software.
On 31/03/13 23:47, name at domain wrote:
> As far as I know, it is, today, impossible to get 3D acceleration on ARM
> with free software.
29 Mar 2013: Etnaviv 3D GPU Reverse-Engineering Project:
http://rhombus-tech.net/freescale/iMX6/news/
Do not hope for ARM to support FaiF drivers and firmware:
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2013-March/006952.html
I am a translator!
You can get 3D acceleration on the Glamo chip used in the Neo Freerunner if you write such a driver (the specs have been released but there probably wasn't much interest to write a 3D driver probably because 3D acceleration doesn't support the native resolution of the Freerunner):
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAzMjU
On 01/04/13 06:39, m971668 wrote:
> Aaron Seigo, of KDE, on "Luminosity of Free Software" episode 2
> recently stated the Vivaldi tablet (Plasma Active) will be released
> sometime this year and will only use free software hardware drivers.
> He also welcomed others to sell Vivaldi competitors (free Plasma
> Acitve ARM tablets).
Does it require proprietary firmware though?
> Maybe a Trisquel Plasma Active ARM tablet in the near future?
Ruben did mention a potential future ARM port in his speech at
LibrePlanet, but only once it is possible to run it with only free software.
Andrew.