Will the upcoming EfikaMX models take advantage of the dual and quad core processor power of the iMX6?

The MX6 ones will but this chip is a little far away from being released.

Ok, after some delays and some package fiddling, here is the first SD card image with the 3D binary drivers from Freescale, rebuilt for hardfloat:

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/asset/by-id/126

Just dd it on an SD card and boot. I don't really have any serious 3D apps there to show, only simple_draw and es11ex. Simple_draw gives ~190FPS vs 154FPS on softfp, which is an expected 23% gain from using hardfloat.

Some comments:

1. The kernel used is the latest git kernel from gitorius, so should be pretty much the same as in the maverick image.
2. KDE4 is incomplete in the image, only gnome works properly right now, I should have removed it completely but I decided to leave it for users that would like to install it.
3. mplayer+vlc are not available for video playback, there are failing build-dependencies in Debian that forbid this (libbluray/libgii resp). The first is java-related (missing link, already reported), the latter is thumb2-related, for which I already have a fix. So no movie playback for now, sorry, but ffplay works.
4. I will upload the armhf debs on the armhf repo which we will setup soon on some Genesi server.

Enjoy!

Markos,

Any clues to the username/password, the previous armhf/demo does not work.

found it - user: demo password: demo :D

oops! sorry, and I thought I forgot to mention something :)
Also, root password is 'armhf'. :)

Markos,

root password is 'efika' :)

Armhf is looking good.

is the 2.6.39-2 kernel in /boot a usable?

Hello everybody!
I'm new in the web page because i just get a efika MX smarttop. I've tried to install the image of the first post but it does not work!

I'm not sure what I've to do, I did the "dd" of the image to and SD card, and when I tried to boot the efika it starts normally with ubuntu.

is it works in smarttop as well?

Thanks!

Yes, it should work in a smarttop as well. I think I see what the problem might be. The image is compressed so you would have to use -as root- something like the following:



After that you should reboot and it should load into armhf. :)

Hello,

I've just tried to boot it but it does not work.

Should i do anything else before efika starts to boot? Some kind of bios?

Thanks!!!

Could you please give more details? That is, what does it do exactly?

Hi,

It does nothing :? I mean, when i boot efika nothing happend. It starts ubunut like there was not any SD card installed. My question was,

Is there any bios in efika where i can tell to boot from sd card?

Sorry if my english is not totally correct :oops:

Thanks

I get the same problem on the Efika MX Smart Book. The system hangs when it boots up with the armhf+3d SD card.

Ok, I forgot to mention that the image expands to a 4GB SD card image, have you used a smaller one?

I used a 16GB SD card. I tried dd twice, first with the option bs=8192, then without it. Efika MX did not start up with it and crashed twice.