<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sridhar@laptop.org.au">sridhar@laptop.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 20 June 2011 21:22, Mitchell Seaton <<a href="mailto:meaton.2v@gmail.com">meaton.2v@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Sridhar/Jerry,<br>
> Thought this might be of interests as a potential hardware for XS Mini<br>
> application. Some of the specs are on this<br>
> address: <a href="http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus.html" target="_blank">http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus.html</a> is being manufactured in the<br>
> Philippines (my eKindling colleague mentioned it too me), it would be really<br>
> suitable here for XS usage in some of our project (pilot) schools here in<br>
> the Philippines. Seeing that the current version is running on Debian OS it<br>
> may be suitable to likely run Fedora 11 or higher on this device, and thus<br>
> XS Mini. The main issue of course would be storage into 512MB NAND. So<br>
> similiar to the old XS-on-XO.<br>
> Please let me know your thoughts, and if it is of good interest as a target<br>
> device then maybe we could make one available for testing?<br>
<br>
</div>Cool idea! It would serve better as an all-in-one device if it had an<br>
integrated wireless AP. Maybe we can look into running ejabberd on an<br>
OpenWRT-based device.<br>
<br>
A common difficulty with such devices right now is the CPU. In this<br>
case it is a "1.2GHz Marvell processor", which I guess means that it<br>
is ARM-based. All versions of XS are currently made for x86. I'd like<br>
to see that change, in light of the work done on the ARM-based<br>
XO-1.75. That'll take some work.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>The Marvell processor is indeed ARM based but its already very well supported in the Fedora ARM project. I suspect its based on the Marvell Sheeva Plug or one of its derivative devices. They are quite common and the details on the Using ARM [1] page for the Sheevaplug should work. You can get the latest release based on F-13 here [2]. It should have all the packages needed to run ejabberd on it.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Peter<br><br>[1] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Using">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Using</a> <br></div></div>[2] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM#Releases">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM#Releases</a><br>