Starhawk, unfortunately, 01micko is right
Compared to the ARM world, x86 world suddenly looks very homogenous. PAE or non-PAE discussions suddenly feels like kid's talk.
ARM world is very different from x86. In ARM world, every ARM device is different - it has different CPUs (with different capabilities which can't even be probed by software), different chip features (which can't be probed by software), different peripherals (which can't be probed by software) ... in x86 world, every laptop or desktop may be different but *almost all* of them have PCI busses and these features can be probed by software - thus enabling auto-configuration. There is no such thing on ARM
Case in point - a few posts earlier Ted Dog asked how to access his SATA disk and I said, load the sw_ahci_platform module. But FD-Arm already comes with udev, and udev is supposed to automatically load modules when a particular is detected, right? Right? Yes --- except that udev on ARM can't probe that the platform has SATA support to begin with
thus it must be loaded manually.
Thus every single device will need work. FD-Arm is currently configured for Mele A1000 but it will definitely needs re-configuration for Mele M5. Have you seen this link:
Adopting FatdogArm?
How about others? Look here:
Official Fedora Arm 19 release notes and here:
Fedora Arm 19 remixes. As you can see, almost every other ARM platform gets its own distribution ... Same story with Debian too.
Coming nearer to home, Mavrothal is currently adapting FD-Arm for OLPC. No, not for OLPC, for XO laptop. No, not for XO laptop, it is for XO-4 laptop. When done, he will probably come out with a specific image for XO-4 laptop. This makes it easier for people to get the image, dd it into a USB stick and boots it up on XO-4. But someone has to prepare for it. And so that it is noted, the image for XO-4
will not work on XO-1.75 although both are ARM platforms and both are using Marvell CPU (different model though). It is
that specific. (I will be the one working on XO-1.75 laptop). 01micko did the same for Pandora - without his work FD-Arm *will not boot* on it. He may release his own adapted version of FD-Arm sooner or later.
To conclude: the only sure fire way to get FD-Arm (or any other ARM distro out there) to work on a specific ARM device is to get someone to test, adapt and package FD-ARM for that device. Only then you can just get a downloadable image with a few easy steps to follow (dd to SD card, etc).
If not, then one must take the path less travelled. I can be your guide and tell you pointers and perhaps some generic steps, but since I
do not own the specific device you have in mind I will not be able to tell you exactly the steps to do or why certain things won't or can't work (well, this is true in Fatdog64 too); but before we even being the path, as Micko pointed out above, one must be equipped with certain skills which can be learned along the way. The only consolation I can offer is that the journey will be fun (if you like that sort of fun
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@Ted Dog,
From the spec, the Onda looks like it uses standard A10, so that's quite identical to what Mele A1000. The only thing to worry about is the "script.bin", the touchscreen driver, and the wireless driver.
@Starhawk,
The T004 is based on A10s (which is sun5i, not sun4i like A10), so it will require a different boot loader, a different kernel, and its "script.bin". It's a stick so we can forget about the touchscreen, but still beware of the wireless driver.
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To know what driver is being used for these devices, install Android "Terminal" app, launch it, and from there do "ls /sys/modules". You will get an indication of all the drivers being used. If looking for touchscreen, do "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" and peruse it.
To copy the script.bin, look at here:
http://linux-sunxi.org/Submitting_Boards, the easiest is the second from the bottom ("script.bin from nanda mount"), but it requires that your device is rooted (only root can mount /dev/block/nanda for good reasons). If it is not rooted you must use other (much more) convoluted way, unfortunately.
And without the right script.bin, the chance that FD-Arm will work on the device is approximately zero.
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@Starhawk, no I'm not advocating you to get Mele A1000. It is an old device, as Ted Dog pointed out it may not even be avalable anymore; nor do I want to tell you to get anything outside your purchasing power.
But I do hope you understand the issues - whatever device you choose, it's going to be complicated (and devices like CX-01 multiply the complications by many times to the point that it isn't worth it anymore).
cheers!
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