Hello,
While looking on the internet a while ago, i found out this development board that have almost the same hardware characteristics of our beloved Herotab C8, its called the mini210s from the FriendlyArm website.
Here are the Specification:
CPU: 1 GHz Samsung S5PV210 with PowerVR SGX540 graphics engine
RAM: 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 32 bit Bus
Flash: up to 4GB NAND Flash
EEPROM: 256 Byte (I2C)
Ext. Memory: 1x microSD-Card socket
Serial Ports: 1x DB9 connector (RS232), total: 4x serial port connectors
USB: 1x USB-A Host 2.0, 1x miniUSB Slave/OTG 2.0
Audio Output: 3.5 mm stereo jack, connector for a speaker (Class D Amp)
Audio Input: Condenser microphone
...
OS Support
Windows CE 6
Linux
Android
After i saw that they supported Linux i went out to to see if there's anyone have ever installed Linux on it before, and it turned out that it is easy to do, and there's already an ubuntu image ready to be installed onto this board. (Just google "Mini210S ubuntu sd" )
Now the BIG question, how to handle the bootloader ? i personnaly seem to lack some knowledge into the boot process of android chineese tablet, but with your help guys i hope i can do it and establish a nice old tutorials to do it.
For info, i have a herotab opened and internal SD card removed in order to do tests on !
While looking on the internet a while ago, i found out this development board that have almost the same hardware characteristics of our beloved Herotab C8, its called the mini210s from the FriendlyArm website.
Here are the Specification:
CPU: 1 GHz Samsung S5PV210 with PowerVR SGX540 graphics engine
RAM: 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 32 bit Bus
Flash: up to 4GB NAND Flash
EEPROM: 256 Byte (I2C)
Ext. Memory: 1x microSD-Card socket
Serial Ports: 1x DB9 connector (RS232), total: 4x serial port connectors
USB: 1x USB-A Host 2.0, 1x miniUSB Slave/OTG 2.0
Audio Output: 3.5 mm stereo jack, connector for a speaker (Class D Amp)
Audio Input: Condenser microphone
...
OS Support
Windows CE 6
Linux
Android
After i saw that they supported Linux i went out to to see if there's anyone have ever installed Linux on it before, and it turned out that it is easy to do, and there's already an ubuntu image ready to be installed onto this board. (Just google "Mini210S ubuntu sd" )
Now the BIG question, how to handle the bootloader ? i personnaly seem to lack some knowledge into the boot process of android chineese tablet, but with your help guys i hope i can do it and establish a nice old tutorials to do it.
For info, i have a herotab opened and internal SD card removed in order to do tests on !