Hacking an a10 tablet is extremly painful and sub-standard IHMO mostly causes by insufficient diagnostic means, most particular missing tty lines and an insufficiently documented (i.e. only "leaked") multi-stage boot and setup process. Additionally, vendors produce small charges of very different tablets, so that no proper reference tablet is available to focus joint hacking.
I for one actually stopped a project with my tablet as things came out to be too weakly defined, means unstable, to apply the usual incremental process, although i can sometimes boot the rescue system, which is very good, though i needed a modified kernel and uboot/spi. I've now ordered a Cubieboard hoping to be able to work on a more defined basis before returning to the tablet.
A few weeks ago, i talked to the KDE developers on a convention, who are eager to improve the Plasma on tablets and badly miss a reference tablet, too. IMO the a10 could in general be a good platform for freeware development, but for now, one still has to walk on thin ice for every such tablet in my experience.
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My tablet is a PROTAB2-IPS9
I for one actually stopped a project with my tablet as things came out to be too weakly defined, means unstable, to apply the usual incremental process, although i can sometimes boot the rescue system, which is very good, though i needed a modified kernel and uboot/spi. I've now ordered a Cubieboard hoping to be able to work on a more defined basis before returning to the tablet.
A few weeks ago, i talked to the KDE developers on a convention, who are eager to improve the Plasma on tablets and badly miss a reference tablet, too. IMO the a10 could in general be a good platform for freeware development, but for now, one still has to walk on thin ice for every such tablet in my experience.
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My tablet is a PROTAB2-IPS9