I doubt it. . . According to the available documentation you must boot from either SD, NAND, or USB. But what about SATA boot? Edit: But only if you hack uboot to do it! Jeff? davygravy? are either of you up to it?by gnexus - Allwinner A10
Note: Development of the A10 platform is occurring at a rapid pace. The information in this thread is no longer relevant, but will remain as legacy information. Use of these SD images has been deprecated, and is no longer recommended. The version below has also been deprecated. Current a10linux.org SD card images will be located at http://a10linux.org This full 4GB Debian Sid armhf MythTV demby gnexus - Allwinner A10
Lets see how fast this thing will go! Clock speed is controlled by the script.bin file. It is close to the top under the header. The variable to set is boot_clock. The stated speed for my tablet was 1.2GHz , but boot_clock is set at 1008. Does the clock change after boot? According to posts on the 'net the max speed of the A10 is 1.5GHz. It requires a heatsink to achieve that speed, sby gnexus - Allwinner A10
I had Squeeze running on my tablet as a chroot with TDE (KDE3). It worked fine, but the rootfs had some issues because the rootfs was not clean. The rootfs was imported from my N800, and it had a few N800 binaries that were not installed as packages. Once I got the tablet booting natively with Ubuntu I deleted Squeeze. Since TDE is supported in Squeeze I am going to create a new Squeeze rootfsby gnexus - Allwinner A10
LXDE is too lightweight. KDE4 is a big pig (but fine for higher powered systems). No other current desktops seem to cut it yet. We need TDE (KDE3)! It works great on the A10 in Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu Oneiric. But we want Sid, or at least Ubuntu 12.04. . . Please somebody compile it for those platforms using armv7 armhf. TDE source is here at http://www.trinitydesktop.org/releases/3.5.1by gnexus - Allwinner A10
QuoteSurely the battery is not dead already. You're running a Guruplug off a battery? Hey, that's a cool idea! Try using the AC power adapter and plugging it into the 'net. That should solve the problem. J/K :) sorry, just had to do it. LOLby gnexus - Debian
Guruplug does not have a RTC. It gets the time from ntp.by gnexus - Debian
Mele A1000/A2000 Android 4.0 Image Released Good news. But so what. I had Android 4.0.3 on my tablet from the start when I bought it. My tablet image will most likely work on the Mele boxes. Then all you would need are the TV specific APK's.by gnexus - Allwinner A10
Arm Cortex A8 Vs Intel Atom:Architectural And Benchmark Comparisonsby gnexus - Allwinner A10
Still need to work on the kernel and swap file "swappiness." Android kernels do not need to swap, as it suspends each Java VM when it is not being used. GNU/Linux needs swap badly, especially with only 512MB on this tablet. Swap settings are in sysctl.conf. But will they have an effect when using an Android kernel? I'm fixing to try the kernel I compiled. I hope they removed the Anby gnexus - Allwinner A10
root@T-01:~# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.5 2604 1588 ? Ss 12:05 0:02 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:05 0:00 root 3 4.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:05 5:29 root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:05 0:00 root 6 0.0 0.0by gnexus - Allwinner A10
http://t-01/phpinfo.php PHP Version 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 System Linux T-01 3.0.8+ #2 PREEMPT Fri Mar 2 14:28:08 CST 2012 armv7l Build Date Apr 12 2012 09:56:53 Server API FPM/FastCGI . . . . . . It IS in my pocket! (Is that a web server in your pocket, or are you just happy to see that the PHP works?)by gnexus - Allwinner A10
I was thinking about Ethernet transfer rates, and I would imagine that the cpu is still the bottleneck on these devices. I decided to do a very unscientific transfer rate test: 9436KB file - A10 Tablet (RTL8192 802.11n Wifi) to GoFlex Net (MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet): 4.6MB/s 9436KB file GoFlex Net (MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet) to GoFlex Net: 4.6MB/s 9436KB file GoFlex Net (MV-64by gnexus - Allwinner A10
Why use GNU/LInux instead of Android? Here is one reason: The first thing I did on Android was remove all the extra Google apps. But guess what. Android 4.0.3 ICS still calls home to a Google server constantly. I used netstat to monitor the network connections. I used lsof to locate the offending program. It was the Android system_server itself. This is even after all Google apps, sync and bacby gnexus - Allwinner A10
The rootfs and SD images here are now all armhf images. You should use an armhf distro on the A10 for best performance. The rootfs archive is a basic Ubuntu 12.04 LTS armhf rootfs image with SSH and no other packages. Here is the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS armhf rootfs sha256sum: ?? You can also get an armhf rootfs directly from Ubuntu. I just found out about it and have not tried it. Ours weby gnexus - Allwinner A10
That is what is built into the SoC. It is not a separate component. The Raspi has the same 10/100. I really don't even want to get started on the built-in ethernet. It is the only sore point of the whole SoC. I really don't why they included it (yes I do. to make a cheap TV box). Keep in mind this is a Chinese SoC made for the Chinese domestic market. It was never intended to be sby gnexus - Allwinner A10
Note: Allwinner A1X kernel development is occurring at a very rapid pace. Many changes are forthcoming. Therefore the u-boot versions below have been deprecated and will be unsupported by a10linux.org. For best results you should use the latest u-boot. Newer u-boot versions will be available at http://a10linux.org. The A10 boot process is very different from Kirkwood. Here is how it works forby gnexus - Allwinner A10
Android 4.0.3 ICS runs very nice on my tablet. It plays 1080p video flawlessly on the 2160p player. ICS for the Mele is now available. A link is on the A10 devices thread. Here is a link to the d/l page. Click on the green button. If you want to further discuss Android on the A10 there are countless other forums which likely are better suited to your needs.by gnexus - Allwinner A10
The A10 is a new ARM SoC. So many people will be asking "What the hell is an A10?" A good place is at the official linux-sunxi wiki. The linux-sunxi wiki is operated by the lead kernel maintainer for the linux-allwinner kernel. Linux OS sunxi SD images, rootfs archives, stable kernels, and a stable u-boot for the sunxi platform will be available from the A10 Linux Foundation at htby gnexus - Allwinner A10
Welcome to the Allwinner A10 Forum Thank you for joining in. I, and a small group of Linux developers, hackers, and enthusiasts who are trying to get GNU/Linux distributions working well on our A10 devices created this forum as a place to improve the GNU/Linux experience on Allwinner (sunxi) SoCs. We need people to assist us in creating stable and easy to install Linux distributions thaby gnexus - Allwinner A10
QuoteI've created a new 'Platforms' subforum with A10 and Kirkwood forums. Enjoy :) Ooohhh! AWESOME! Now I have a good place to collate all the A10 information I have so far. That will greatly help me and others. Prepare for a FLOOD of A10 information! Link to the new A10 subforum is here. Please do not discuss the A10 in other forums on this site. That helps everby gnexus - Debian
QuoteThanks for sharing knowledge. I wish you run blog or service about it, because most people - including me - can't get whole image of situation, even if they know about separate devices. Neither can I. . . As I stated above I could post a page or a blog on my site, or even create a forum. It would probably be very popular. But that is not my thing. I really don't want to do thby gnexus - Debian
QuoteFor example I knew about Mele A1000 (which technically is just A2000 with half of flash) and A2000 (which was more expensive), No. They are identical except for the case.by gnexus - Debian
QuoteI would suggest you create a new thread for this Allwinner A10 so we can follow your experience on this a little better? TIA. -bodhi I put one post on the Uboot section here. That started as really only a basic thanks to davy and Jeff for their Uboot stuff. But my main reason for compiling Uboot, now that davy released his new version, was to make sure that I the build for the A10 wouldby gnexus - Debian
I just found out that the Raspberry Pi Broadcom SoC uses ARM11 core with ARMv6 architecture. It has limited VFP support that is in between ARMv5 and ARMv7. It is not supported by Ubuntu or Debian armhf. But there is a guy that is taking the time to build a Debian hard float distro specific to the RasPi. Funny that he is using a Mele box to do so. I apologize the the Raspi people for getting thby gnexus - Debian
Oh, crap! How did that happen? That one is not for sale. I thought about selling a GoFlex after I sold the Dockstar. I hit the listing button by accident, and then had to cancel the listing. So that link was also in my email. I was fighting with my email when I posted the link because it kept closing as my disk was full. I must have got that link by mistake since it is also eBay and Seagate.by gnexus - Debian
QuoteIs there any source where I can learn to translate for example A10 to ARMx? I don't understand what you are asking there. . . but I think what you mean is how to locate the arch. The specs for the SoC always list the arch such as ARMv5 or ARMv7. ARMv7 or later is what you are looking for to have hw float (VFP). You are correct, however. There are a lot of different ARM platforms, nby gnexus - Debian
If anyone is interested I need to sell my Dockstar. It has serial port installed and has Davy's new Uboot. So it will boot newer kernels. It currently is using linux-3.3 kernel from Sheeva-with-Linux. It has Debian Sid running in the flash with nginx and php5. The drive cradle has been modified (cut down the plastic) so that it does not need Seagate drive casing. Many USB drive casings willby gnexus - Debian
From the Debian wiki page you linked to above: QuoteCurrently the Debian armhf port requires at least an ARMv7 CPU with Thumb-2 and VFP3D16. Dockstar, as you noted above, is Marvell Feroceon 88FR131 (usually just known as Kirkwood) processor. As you posted above it is ARMv5l architecture. ARM hard float basically refers to VFP instruction set. VFP2 was optional in ARMv5, but rarely used. VFPby gnexus - Debian
I'd be willing to assist every now and then. I like your site as it's been probably the most useful to me recently. :) But I don't want to be maintainer. What you need to do is like what Wikipedia and most others do originally and still do. Just put up a wiki and let anybody that is registered add content. Then have a maintainer to make any fixes and ban the people who abuse theirby gnexus - Debian