Sunday, March 4, 2012

Raspberry Pi Mer Hardware Adaptation

I've made some packages for the RaspberryPi to adapt the board to Mer.

Using the information released by the foundation at https://github.com/raspberrypi I've built 3 packages which consist of a kernel package, bootloader and mkimage tool to convert the kernel into a format readable by the bootloader. Packages can be found at http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/vgrade:/raspPi/Mer_Core_armv6l/armv6l/

I've also created a Mer kickstart file which creates an image which can be easily written to sdcard and boots to X+qmlviewer within 20 seconds of powerup.  The kickstart and image can be found at http://bug10738.openaos.org/images/raspberry-pi/

An ideal base for very low cost Qt/QML based products.  eg, Interactive bus stop, travel information display, store customer service etc


Check back for more details of how you can use the Mer PDK, http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Platform_SDK for development.










1 comment:

CalgaryDon said...

Thanks for doing this. Your work is much appreciated.
Hopefully there's a method here that will allow me to follow your blog.