Will Puppy run on a CX-01 "Android Cloud Stick"?
Posted: Mon 27 Aug 2012, 02:41
In the next week or so I will have a CX-01 "Android Cloud Stick". I would vastly prefer that it not run Android! (I will at some point be buying an HDMI->VGA adapter off eBay, as I don't fancy being restricted to a rather large and inconveniently-placed television for my display.)
I would love it if Puppy could run on that little doohickey. I can say that it's got a Telechips TCC8925 SoC with a Mali-400 graphics processor inside. More info here --> http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/06/14/ ... cortex-a5/
There is an open-source "Lima" driver for the Mali-400, but I don't believe it has been made to work on that particular SoC yet. The files are at http://www.limadriver.org.
The primary problems I would face here, are that my Internet connection is pathetically slow (Verizon 3g that runs at about the speed of a Motorola DYNAtac from the 80s ) and that I am by nature horrible at programming.
My experience so far is almost exclusively in an archaic form of the BASIC language. (Remember the QBASIC that shipped with Windows 3.1? Yeah, it's that one.) I tried to take C++ in college (twice!) but was doomed because I got a prof who taught by comparing the language at hand to Java -- which I never learned, nor had interest in learning. I barely passed the course each time.
I can do it if someone baby-steps me through it, and if the Internet problem can be avoided. If there is a version of Woof2 that I can get, that does not need to download packages (perhaps it can be downloaded *with* the packages) or if Igu's roar-ng could be made to work... then perhaps this is possible.
I'm willing to try. Will you folks help me?
I would love it if Puppy could run on that little doohickey. I can say that it's got a Telechips TCC8925 SoC with a Mali-400 graphics processor inside. More info here --> http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/06/14/ ... cortex-a5/
There is an open-source "Lima" driver for the Mali-400, but I don't believe it has been made to work on that particular SoC yet. The files are at http://www.limadriver.org.
The primary problems I would face here, are that my Internet connection is pathetically slow (Verizon 3g that runs at about the speed of a Motorola DYNAtac from the 80s ) and that I am by nature horrible at programming.
My experience so far is almost exclusively in an archaic form of the BASIC language. (Remember the QBASIC that shipped with Windows 3.1? Yeah, it's that one.) I tried to take C++ in college (twice!) but was doomed because I got a prof who taught by comparing the language at hand to Java -- which I never learned, nor had interest in learning. I barely passed the course each time.
I can do it if someone baby-steps me through it, and if the Internet problem can be avoided. If there is a version of Woof2 that I can get, that does not need to download packages (perhaps it can be downloaded *with* the packages) or if Igu's roar-ng could be made to work... then perhaps this is possible.
I'm willing to try. Will you folks help me?