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Subject: Re: Plasma Active Infos
From: Marco Martin <notmart () gmail ! com>
Date: 2012-12-31 9:47:07
Message-ID: 201212311047.07632.notmart () gmail ! com
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On Wednesday 26 December 2012, Mathieu Calvo wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
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> Padways is a french company that develops ambient intelligence systems for
> house livings and industry. These systems uses technologies as touchscreen,
> nfc, sensors, actuators,...
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> We have designed our own hardware based on ARM core, we use Android OS most
> of the time and also work on our own embedded linux kernel, from an
> Angstrom one.
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> But we just took knowledge of the Plasma Active project, we find that it
> looks very fine and would like to know more about it, in order to use it as
> an alternative of Android for our new customers.
That sounds interesting, and yes, I think Active may be adapt at least for
projects that require a full linux stack, or a completely customized vertical
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> Could you tell me if the kernel is an open source one so that we could
> customize it for our hardware ? If yes do you provide the source for ARM
> based devices, as BeagleBone for example ?
Plasma Active is based on Mer, that is a distribution of all the user space
for ARM, kernel not included since it needs to be deployed/built in a quite
different way for each different ARM platform.
then there are "hardware adaptions" projects focused on a particular platform
that provide the kernel/boot loader and anything else that is necessary to
boot and run correctly a mer installation on that particular hardware.
I can't answer at the moment about the support of a particular board, but in
any case if is something not supported at the moment, is usually feasible to
get it working in a reasonable amount of time, provided the availability of
drivers.
Unlike Android, Plasma active is based on top of a "normal linux" stack, so if
the board currently works with other distributions (as i seen in the
beaglebone example, seems to be present a debian distribution for it) yes, it
can work with Mer/Plasma Active.
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> For Linux HMI programs we use Qt/C++ to develop them, I guess that this
> would also be possible for applications of Plasma Active interfaces ?
yes, Qt/C++ (on top of X11) is the main development platform for Active.
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Marco Martin
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