USB stick PC .. ARM CPU, HDMI

[sc0ttman]

Here are some plans to ship a USB stick with a working PC embedded on it.. This is designed to go into the back of any HDMI capable TV and allow a full X desktop, browser, HD video, etc.. It has good specs, looks great..

More importantly, it will be key in helping to push a project forward for UK students to get a REAL computer education... I once found some 13yo German kids had built a project that is a UK UNIVERSITY project.. We are way behind in the UK with computing!..

It means kids without smart phones, laptops and PCs and have a portable USB that can turn most new screens into their PC! Excellent ..

It also is designed by nature to help users learn more about computing!

Homepage: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

See the article and video:

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game ... 5-2011055/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters ... young.html

Trying to support tablet PCs is one thing, but we should maybe think about:

1. Get in contact, make them aware of puppy
2. Get hardware specs, try to build a kernel for it
3. They plan to use Ubuntu (maybe) .. Lets match what they got!

(Just suggestions!)

[issarad]

The problem is, as always with these small devices that pop up from time to time, is that it uses an ARM processor.

[nooby]

Puppy is based a bit on Slackware is it not? I mean the first puppy?
But Barry had his own mind on how to set it up so it is not slackware now is it. Puppy is too different to be seen as slackware?

compare now with Ubuntu being the most known distro which is a variety of Debian. Debian already have a long experience of using ports for ARM cpu:s.

Does Slackware based linux have that knowledge. So one would need to make a puppy that started from the Debian ARM ports for that particular ARM CPU that is used in these small computers and it has only 128mb memory. That is way to small to be satisfying for todays youth that is used to 3GB or more on their parents computers doing fast gaming.

So would it really work with such small RAM?

[Lobster]

1. Get in contact, make them aware of puppy

Done!
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 268#520268

[sc0ttman]

just as a side note, has anyone actually tried compiling a kernel or basic root environment for ARM yet? Is there not a tiny little build of filesystem+busybox+etc, made for ARM?

Not that I have the expertise to do it, but here's a guide for compiling kernels for ARM.. http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/docs/kerncomp.php

EDIT, just in case anyone wants to have a look:

Here's a start from linuxarm.org: http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=ael.git; ... ;hb=2010q4

.. and more: http://linux-arm.org/LinuxKernel/WebHome

Here's a guide for building an arm toolchain: http://ftp.snapgear.org/pub/snapgear/to ... inux-3.4.4

A working ARM linux base, from arm.com: http://www.arm.com/community/software-e ... /linux.php

Code ARM sourcery toolchains: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/a ... plate=lite

Also, see GNU ARM: http://www.gnuarm.com/files.html

And as far as I can see, anything that would run on ARM would be so far removed from Puppy as we know it, we could not really call it Puppy...