[Qt-interest] Any recommendation for a tablet running Qt?

[Ross Bencina]

Jason H wrote:
> Android runs on a Linux Kernel. Usually ARM.

That is true, full Kernel source code is available for some tablets.

eg:
Ubuntu 9.04 Karmic running on Viewsonic gTablet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbLkdvpZVEo

I'm not really sure what the driver situation is since most of the decent 
tablets use NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipsets, and have certain closed source NVIDIA 
Android user-space drivers and libraries. I'm not sure you can always get 
the full stack including acellerated graphics working under a generic Linux.

Just another data point..

Ross.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jason H
To: Darryl Hunter ; qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Any recommendation for a tablet running Qt?


Android runs on a Linux Kernel. Usually ARM.

As long as the tablet's boot loader is not locked down (as in only boots 
authorized images - like the Motorola Atrix phone) you can put anything on 
it that you want. Motorola's Zoom tablet isn't locked down.

If you do decide to go your own firmware route, I'd recommend TinyCoreLinux 
if you are running on an x86 platform. I'd also recommend asking them for an 
ARM distribution. :-)







From: Darryl Hunter <darryl.hunter at codersoft.com.au>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 9:41:18 PM
Subject: [Qt-interest] Any recommendation for a tablet running Qt?


Hi all,

I have developed an application in Qt, that I am selling as a product 
(including hardware).  Currently I’m deploying this on Windows PC’s.

I would like to change this to be running on a tablet, and thought that if I 
install Linux on it, I can make the application look more like a “System” 
(where to the clients they are buying an all-in-one unit, rather than a 
computer running Windows, and my product is an application running on top of 
it).  Believe it or not, my client base will believe this J.

I’ve had a look at a Hanvon tablet, which was quite nice.  I currently have 
somebody trying to get Linux running on it, but I have been unable to get a 
response (from 3 emails in the last month) from them, regarding bulk 
purchases.

Today I saw the Acer A500 tablet, running Android.  This may be a way to 
go – I’m still trying to find out if I can install a Linux kernel on that 
system.

So, my question is, has anybody got a Qt application, running on Linux, on a 
tablet, with touch screen support (doesn’t have to be multi-touch) and 
Wi-Fi?  I’m after suggestions of the hardware to use.  I want to keep the 
purchase price down.

Thank you.

Darryl




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