This letter is my plea and suggestion to Wondermedia, although the theme applies to similar tech companies as well.
(If any fluent speaker can translate this into Chinese for me, I'd very much appreciate it!)
Congratulations on your WM8505 system-on-a-chip. In 2005, a "$100 laptop" was a …
Update 25/11: Now supports M003 as well, and it appears the M002 may be able to boot from the M001 build.
Update 27/11: New build posted, now with better functioning Wifi!
Android 2.2 on dirt cheap WM8505 tablets. I said it may not be possible. Since then …
I seem to be getting at least two unsolicited questions a day from people who have inadvertently bricked their Eken M001/M002/M003 or Flytouch/noname tablets . So here's a quick post with what I know about unbricking.
You should also try slatedroid, and hassle whoever is making custom firmwares …
There's been a lot of fragmented discussion about developing kernels for these SoCs, including a big thread of comments on my previous blog post.
So I've decided to create a Google Group to act as a mailing list for people interested in Linux kernel development on these devices: http://groups …
Have started tidying up a Linux kernel for Eken M001 & similar devices (tablets and netbooks), based on the source release that came from VIA last week.
Very, very, early days yet. http://github.com/projectgus/kernel_wm8505.
[Not all of the WM8505 functionality is available in source form yet, in particular …