My New Toy: Gdium Liberty 1000
This morning I eventually received my gdium liberty 1000 from zjs express, nearly 5 days after its shipping! Last time I use sf express to ship my mp4 player to Beijing in less than 2 days. I understand, because of the battery stuff can not be shipped by airline, but 5 days is excessive for train and even for truck!
Although a little dissatisfied with the shipping express, gdium seems very attractive to me at my first glance for its smart size and its black color. It spend me a little time to make the battery work because I do not know how to assemble the battery at first. The speed of gdium is not as good as I had expected for a 900MHZ CPU. But there is room for optimization because of the N32 MIPS ABI. The screen resolution is excellent, 1024*600 is enough for most of the web sites. The Chinese fonts display very well when I visit the sina.com.cn, thanks to wqy fonts. The Youtube videos can also display very well in Firefox. Awesome! I do not find which plugin does firefox use to display the flash, gnash maybe? The gtk desktop is not very fluent, but that's ok because I will replace it with a lightweight desktop.
Gdium, to me, is a development platform more than a notebook for daily use. I want a MIPS development platform for a long time and gdium is the very one. It is better than the yeeloong notebook, which I planned to buy a few months ago, for gdium has an bigger LCD and good look.
I have too many plans on this new toy, porting android, porting lguest and kvm. But the issue is there is no uart interface on gdium. If you want the uart interface, you need to seal it by yourself. That is too hard to me, a hardware beginner.
If there is an emulator of gdium, life would be much easier. I can use the emulator to test the pmon/linux kernel and lguest porting. I know I can develop a gdium emulator based on qemu, but I have done too much about the emulator stuff, qemu-omap3, qemu-jz, virtualmips and a little fed up with emulator development. But emulator is really a big helper for kernel related development......
Following is my todo list these months.
- install debian and a lightweight desktop for gdium
- develop an emulator of gdium based on qemu
- port lguest and kvm to MIPS
- port android to gdium and tune the performance of dalvik runtime on MIPS target
Hello there,
There is actually only parts of gnome at the gKey, the rest is already from lightweight LXDE desktop
xuedi
Thanks for your reply.
That's strange.The desktop is not as quick as I expected. Espically the battery and network icons need more than 10 seconds to appear on the desktop top bar.
The G-Linux desktop is actually iDesk+lxpanel+lxlauncher+metacity+nautilus. You can also find a debian image (not so up-to-date) using a full LXDE desktop on the OLPH server (check the wiki for the direct link).
I'm really glad to see so much energy and enthusiasm into the G-project and you should be receiving a Gdium mainboard with debugging components in the following days.
Regarding the emulator we have some starting points on the wiki, but definitely I'd love to see fully supporting our current G-Linux, so a big thank you for all the useful things you plan on doing.
A gdium with uart interface? Thanks very much.
Hi !
Where do I start if we have to port Android to Loongson ? i understand full source code for Android is now available.
Cheers
Varadarajan
Ottawa
Canada