[GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

[Gennady Kupava]

Hi, Nicolaus.

I have few ideas about about performance. Major bottleneck of freerunner
is amount of memory, so please can you push as much memory to new device
as possible. This will make device lightning fast. Second idea is
related to memory too, but i am much less sure about it. Can we have
some lightning fast sram on device? if bootloader will load kernel code
into it - this may bring huge speed benefit.

I hope i'll be able to buy successor of FR soon.

Gennady.

В Чтв, 16/09/2010 в 10:36 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller пишет:
> 
> Am 16.09.2010 um 10:03 schrieb Sylvain Paré:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for these news!
> > Some questions:
> > Does Openmoko Inc. is involved in this right now ?
> 
> 
> Not directly. We hope they can become more involved
> in the future, e.g. as a distributor for Asia (the project is
> run in Europe) or when we really reach mass production.
> For development and producing small quantities it is
> easier and less expensive to have all people in one place.
> 
> > and which are the next steps between this and a real future GTA04
> > end-user phone?
> 
> 
> For the hardware, we have to test the PCB and see if it smokes or the
> Tux smiles on the screen. Then, we have to get RF certifications
> and get components for building more than some samples.
> 
> 
> It is still a long way to go.
> 
> 
> Software should be quite less challenging. We have Debian Lenny
> running on our demonstrator (i.e. with kernel drivers for display and
> touch screen). So distributions like SHR and QtMoko should be
> available right from day one (even before?).
> 
> 
> Nevertheless there are many areas for experimenting with software:
> * WLAN, Bluetooth
> * use the built in sensors (compass and GPS etc.)
> * make the audio subsystem work to allow phone calls
> * power management
> * etc.
> 
> 
> > Again thanks for your work!
> > BR
> > 
> > Sylvain (aka GarthPS)
> > 
> > 
> > 2010/9/16 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at computer.org>
> >         Am 12.08.2010 um 14:12 schrieb RANJAN:
> >         
> >         > Hi,
> >         > 
> >         > When is the next and more powerful openmoko (capable of
> >         > seamless 3D video and faster processor) is going to be
> >         > released???
> >         > 
> >         > Regards
> >         > Sriranjan
> >         
> >         
> >         I have good news to announce. We have again made progress
> >         towards our goals.
> >         
> >         
> >         The first step is that the Openmoko Beagle Hybrid [1] (which
> >         is our
> >         experimental and development prototype of such a new
> >         Openmoko)
> >         is now working on the BeagleBoard XM [2]. We had to find a
> >         new
> >         solution to solder the connectors (since the BB-XM already
> >         has some). And to do some minor software changes to U-Boot.
> >         But
> >         now it works.
> >         
> >         
> >         Here you can find some photos of the assembly process:
> >         
> >         
> >         http://projects.goldelico.com/p/ombeagle/page/ConnectToBeagleboardXM/
> >         
> >         
> >         We now have a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 with 3D Video behind
> >         a Freerunner touch display!
> >         
> >         
> >         
> >         
> >         And there is also good news for the GTA04 OMAP/UMTS upgrade
> >         board. We have finalized the PCB layout and ordered (thanks
> >         to a
> >         bigger donation) 10 sample boards and a SMD stencil. They
> >         will
> >         arrive in 2-3 weeks. How it could look like is shown here
> >         (showing
> >         a 2-layer mockup board and some of the core components):
> >         
> >         
> >         http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/DSC00477.jpg
> >         
> >         
> >         Nikolaus
> >         
> >         
> >         
> >         
> >         [1]: http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Openmoko%
> >         20Beagle
> >               http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Beagle_Hybrid
> >         [2]: http://beagleboard.org/hardware-xM
> >         
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