Hi ! 2010/2/4 Alejandro Mery <[email protected]>: > been "engineering samples"... what about the UART, serial port (even 2 > pins help a lot) and jtag reachability? =)
That's an important part. :-) Let me explain our experience. A bunch of Debian Developers met at Taipei (.tw) and we got a netbook (MIPS based) under $100. After we got it, we had *no shell*, *no root*, *no loader access*, *no serial*,... We had to exploit a vulnerability in the pdf reader order to start telnetd and we were lucky to get a remote shell. After making some pressure to the company to release source code because they were violating GPL, they putted up some source packages, but not kernel (linux), nor bootloader (uboot). This device has really nice price, but its openness really sucks. Be aware on what you buy, always make sure it really supports open source. The laptop I am talking about is http://www.g-netbook.com/GL-740I.html I would not recommend to anyone to buy it. In the case of ARM netbooks, I have been reading on the 'Always innovating Touchbook' based on the beagleboard (OMAP3) http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm Cheers, -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
