We will be opening up a new i.MX53 Developer Program soon. In order to qualify, you must be currently using an Efika MX i.MX51 system. Please send us an email if you are interested.

Best regards,
Raquel and Bill :)

Any chance you'll have a smart top mx53?

Of course!

R&B :)

Do you mean that the development boards are Smarttops or that there will eventually be Smarttops but not the developer release next month?

Anyone have an idea for something to propose for the developer program? :(

I think an xbmc port would be popular, particularly for the smarttop.

Already make a proposal [1] and request for developement board.

Doudoulinux contributors needed and may be one or two developement boards may help also... ;-)

[1] http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/imx515/824

This seems like a good idea, but I'm worried that something might come up and I'll not be able to finish the port.

Doudoulinux is in! We will support you with all the hardware you need.

R&B :)

Hi,

I'm interested, where / who send an email ?

My purpose is to optimize OOo4Kids, OOoLight, and why not to port Apache OpenOffice.org on ARM.

thanks in advance for your answer :)

[Edit] some links, to explain what we do :

http://wiki.ooo4kids.org

http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source.html

Hi,

You submit your idea through this site at the "Project Program" i.MX53 Developer Program on the left.

I would also like to add some general guidelines (summarised):

- Be verbose. Don't make a proposal which is just two sentences. Make sure the project you propose is feasible, i.e., don't propose porting an operating system when you've never done something on the same complexity scale before.
- Provide some background information on yourself. Why are you the person capable to do what you propose? Add links to other projects etc. that you have worked on before to support your claims.
- Represent the technical challenges and potential problems involved in your project, and propose the plan to solve these. Try to state exactly what issues/problems/... your project is trying to solve.
- Be creative
- A good proposal has three sections:

1) Introduction to your project, goals and yourself
2) Technical challenges, and general reason why you need a board to reach your goal. If possible, add some information on how your project can benefit the community, and its relevance to Genesi.
3) Preliminary plan with a set of milestones.

You should have a look at the i.MX51 project guidelines here:
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/vi ... php?t=1663

These are still valid for the i.MX53 project.


Johan.

Hello everybody,

I'm here because from website to forum, people sent me here.
I'm going to leave next march to travel around the world ( http://ecole.world.y.camino.free.fr ).
I'm looking for a laptop with this feature :
- as much as possible of battery life, that's why I'm looking at smartbook (laptop running on arm).
- tough because travel is not good for computers
- I want to manage my website (joomla, ftp..), I need to be able to read my email, edit photos and videos and write presentations (Impress...)
- And I need to plug micro-projector
- And it would be cool if it can have an intuitive interface to let children manipulate it to watch my photos on classroom that I'm going to visit.

I think, the current Efika MX Smartbook is a good idea but a bit old maybe to plan using it during the next three years as a main computer.
That's why I'm wondering if the next Efika MX Smartbook with i.MX53 could be exactly what i'm looking for especialy if it will have the pixel Qi screen ( http://armdevices.net/2011/06/22/genesi ... -desktops/ ), a good way to save battery.

Best regards,

Recently I read this in a interview with Tanenbaum:

Andrew Tanenbaum : We are starting an ARM port in January

http://linuxfr.org/nodes/88229/comments/1291183


Why not ask them if they are interested in some boards?

And you will get at least some publicity in the academic micro kernel world. (Don't know if L4 is already running on a Efika MX.)

Thanks for this news, I'm going to check this way.