[SGVLUG] Interesting post to rootzwiki

[matti]

imho I think we should be seeing Android on the HP touchpads soon...
--- On Thu, 9/1/11, Scott Packard <spackard at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Scott Packard <spackard at gmail.com>
Subject: [SGVLUG] Interesting post to rootzwiki
To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 5:36 PM

Someone posted a link to a Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K24KdGNLhaTICV1LXSRLdA8GyyrKAP31uj_LrKU8OG0/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1


Containing this interesting paragraph:

This started me thinking. Qualcomm wants and needs to be able to sell their processors and they are not blind to the fact that Android appears to be the OS of choice on Smart phones and tablets. So I did some looking around and I found out that there actually is one other device using the Qualcomm APQ8060. This device is not a consumer device--it is a special board designed for OEMs who want to use APQ8x60 series processors in their design. This device is called a DragonBoard and believe it or not Qualcomm has complete Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) source available for this device !!



In addition, the DragonBoard and Touchpad share many components. The following chipsets/devices appear to be either compatible or identical on both the DragonBoard and Touchpad:

    Main processor
    Adreno video core


    Power management ICs (PM8058, PM8901)
    Sound chipset (Wolfson Microelectronics 8000 series)
    WiFi and bluetooth chipsets (Both devices have Qualcomm/Atheros chipsets)
    USB I/O chipset


This is HUGE news. This means that in theory, the driver support for the devices listed above should work out of the box using this reference build.



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