[OLPC-AU] XS Mini - Ionics Plug (Hardware)

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 20 June 2011 21:22, Mitchell Seaton <meaton.2v at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sridhar/Jerry,
> Thought this might be of interests as a potential hardware for XS Mini
> application. Some of the specs are on this
> address: http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus.html is being manufactured in the
> Philippines (my eKindling colleague mentioned it too me), it would be really
> suitable here for XS usage in some of our project (pilot) schools here in
> the Philippines. Seeing that the current version is running on Debian OS it
> may be suitable to likely run Fedora 11 or higher on this device, and thus
> XS Mini. The main issue of course would be storage into 512MB NAND. So
> similiar to the old XS-on-XO.
> Please let me know your thoughts, and if it is of good interest as a target
> device then maybe we could make one available for testing?

Cool idea! It would serve better as an all-in-one device if it had an
integrated wireless AP. Maybe we can look into running ejabberd on an
OpenWRT-based device.

A common difficulty with such devices right now is the CPU. In this
case it is a "1.2GHz Marvell processor", which I guess means that it
is ARM-based. All versions of XS are currently made for x86. I'd like
to see that change, in light of the work done on the ARM-based
XO-1.75. That'll take some work.

Sridhar



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