Help me get Active on my Android Tablet!

[Jason H]

Well the Mali-400 is very highly regarded. It's ain the Salaxy SIII, it has opensource drivers too, but they don't seem complete yet. There are binary ones though. The Mali-400 is OpenGL ES 1.1 & 2.0, OpenVG 1.1 compliant. http://www.malideveloper.com/developer-resources/drivers/open-source-mali-gpus-linux-exadri2-and-x11-display-drivers.php gives me http://www.malideveloper.com/files/DX910-SW-99003-r3p1-01rel0.tgz ("Mali-400 GPU Linux EXA/DRI2 and X11 Display Drivers r3p1-01rel0")

I would be willing to ship the tablet to someone in the US, if that would help. Otherwise I could probably do the tests. My biggest challenge is going from android (I'm not an android or ARM person) to another OS.




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 From: Lamarque V. Souza <Lamarque.Souza.ext at basyskom.com>
To: active at kde.org; Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: Help me get Active on my Android Tablet!
 

Em Tuesday 18 September 2012, Jason H escreveu:
> Any help? Please?
 
Well, without such a tablet in our hands we cannot make sure it is possible to install Plasma Active on it. The first thing to know is if the boot loader is open (allows to add a new kernel to boot). Then you need to find a suitable image that at least allows you to run Xorg, maybe one of the images listed in http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Installation already works, but we need to test them first. After that you would need find the correct drivers for the GPU (OpenGL is kind of required by Plasma Active), wifi, sound, etc. But again: without the tablet in our hands we cannot do the tests, so you would need to do them yourself. 
 
> ________________________________
>  From: Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>
> To: "active at kde.org" <active at kde.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 11:08 AM
> Subject: Help me get Active on my Android Tablet!
> 
> 
> I just got a Lava Tech QPad tablet, and I want to install KDE Active2 on
> it.
> 
> Now, I know that KDE conflicts with Android, so I'm willing to blow it all
> away. (Not an android fan myself...)
> 
> So here's what I know. The product page is here:
> http://www.lava-tech.com/qpad_c1010111.html It is a Rockwell 29 chipset,
> with a Mali-400 GPU with ICS.
> 
> I have the android SDK installed on my PC.  (Win7-64)
> 
> That's about it.
> 
> How do I get started?
> Thanks!
> 
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