Cortex A9

Hope no one minds the advert:

You can see a Pandaboard running RISC OS at the next ROUGOL meeting on 19th March.

Details on the website – http://rougol.jellybaby.net/

Fantastic … can you post a simple “how to” for get pandaboard booting and running without !SDCreate?

You can simply copy the files using a card reader on any computer onto the SD card. I think you have to copy the MLO file first. Anyhow, get hold of the !Help file, it’s a text file, inside the SDCreate directory and read that – it’s not very long and will probably tell you all you need to know.

Yes is what I have done but with MLO from validation image of panda after ModuleInit the system freeze.
I think something went wrong with video initialization but not sure. Tried other MLO but system hangs (X-loader). Is there any particular bootargs to set? Maybe I need the right MLO and uBoot.bin image …

Sorry for my terrible english :) and thank you very much

Yes, you need to get the correct files for your pandaboard as many of the files are machine specific. There are 5 files: MLO, U-BOOT/SCR, BOOT/SCR, RISC OS and CMOS. You should be able to download these from the ROOL website. BOOT/SCR is in the scripts directory inside the SDCreate directory. Somebody more knowledgable will come along soon and help.

I’m having problems too trying to get the latest ROM going on my Pandaboard.

The board just sits at a blank screen with both LEDs on :( tomorrow I will find a USB serial cable for my laptop to connect up and try to debug.

If I replace my panda/RISCOS boot.scr with one for Ubuntu and copy an Ubuntu kernel on it tried to boot do hopefully my MLO and u-boot.bin are ok. I got both of them from a prebuilt Ubuntu image I’ve been running on the Panda till now.

Not sure where I’m going wrong but I guess I need to get serial working to really debug it.

OMAP4

The forthcoming Archos G10 XS docking tablet is rumoured to use the OMAP4470.

@Gareth Woolridge, have you tried the files from Chris Gransden: https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/984#posts-11474

we should keep in touch about the transformer and the Ubuntu install

Following the ICS updates and associated issues (mine’s a B6O model), I’m waiting for a stable version which I can try to backup before attempting the Ubuntu install.

Has anyone started porting efforts for the archos g9 101 tablet? I found that since mid may a special developer edition ( = multiple boot possibility ) for the tablet is available. And i have the tablet here…

Hopefully i will be able to find some information about the additional hardware apart from the Omap 4460 used in that tablet.

Anyone?

Have you already found stuff like the following (sorry if not relevant)?

• Multi boot with the SDE (including the G9 links in letama’s sig)
• G9 101 16GB 1.5GHz Teardown!

There’s an interesting mITX form factor board due out:
http://de.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/embedded+motherboards/miniitx+motherboards/ktt30mitx.html

Designed for manufacturers of embedded systems to directly replace an x86 mITX board so all the standard fittings.

@Trevor no, I had not. Thanks a lot.
I did not find official hw docs up to now. (Started searching yesterday)
To start with, it seems possible to first root the device, start android, and then reboot into a different OS from SD card.

Designed for manufacturers of embedded systems to directly replace an x86 mITX board so all the standard fittings

I wish Raspberry had done this. (Or even made a model c in this sort of form.)

Maybe when the full data specs are available this might be viable.
Wishing for a Raspberry model C with full bells and whistles for less than 100 quid is probably “Pi in the sky”

Would it utilise all the cores? I remember you said in another forum thread that it would be a long, long time before we saw any ROOL version that would utilise a dual core processor.

In a few months we might be at the point where programmers can start experimenting with multi-core code. But it’s hard to say how long it will take for that to translate into useful software from a user’s perspective.

I also remember that there’d be no hardware acceleration on powerVR gpus due to a lack of a proper sdk, is there more likely to be hardware accelerated graphics on the Graperain system on mdoule (and above) platforms?

Possibly. Mali and Adreno GPUs have semi-capable open source drivers for some models. But of course the big problem is the “semi-capable” and “some models” aspects. Reverse-engineering GPUs isn’t easy!