Re: [fedora-arm] Nexus 7

On 07/03/2012 03:32 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones<rjones(a)redhat.com> > wrote: >> >> >> I know we don't support tablets. That's been pretty comprehensively >> covered on the list already, eg: >> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-April/003107.html > > > Actually that doesn't state we don't comprehensively want to support > tablets, it states at the moment it's hard to support tablets. I would > love to be able to support tablets and the touch stuff is improving > all the time, like with F-17 we actually now have the underlying > support for multitouch, now if only we had some even half decent X > drivers we'd be well on the way there. There's even people working on > the gnome touch stuff on ARM so it should improve even more in the > F-18 cycle! > >> But! Suddenly a tablet appears which is both much cheaper and (in >> some respects) far more powerful than the Trim Slices and BeagleBoards >> that we do support. >> >> Is it possible to support Tegra2/3 tablets, at least in a headless >> configuration until there are graphics drivers? > > > It's possible if the relevant kernel code is upstream. I've got one on > order with the intention of looking at what would be required to make > it work and to hack around with it. With 3.4 the beginnings of the > tegra30 support started to appear. I'm hoping google is a lot better > at pushing it upstream than say Toshiba with the AC100. This is another part that is really perverse - it shouldn't be Google/Toshiba pushing Tegra support upstream, it should be Nvidia.