RE: Notes on Mirage meeting - 11 Sep

[Christopher Greenhalgh <Chris.Greenhalgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On September 2013 17:14 Richard Mortier wrote:
>
>>On 11 Sep 2013, at 17:08, Amir Chaudhry wrote:
>>
>> - Xen-arm (cubie boards).  Progress being made so Mort will try out.
>
>specifically, i've forwarded info to chris greenhalgh (prof @ notts) who has 
>expressed interest. not sure whether/on what timescale he'll try them out -- 
>at least the lead time of getting a cubieboard i imagine. i think chris is on 
>cl-mirage so can ?comment further if he wants.

I want to develop some services for (1) media sharing and (2) network sharing 
(http://opensharingtoolkit.org). There are a few overlapping use cases, 
including (a) on an Android tablet running as a kiosk-type device (with and 
without an internet connection) (b) on something comparable to a plug computer 
but battery+mains powered to be used as a local media exchange point & managed 
internet access point (with a 2G/3G modem) (c) cloud hosted. The second of 
these is the one that a cubieboard might fit. 

Right now I'm working on the Android use case so I'm not in a great hurry. And 
I'm still more in the position of "giving Mirage a go" for embedded service 
development than being fully committed to it :-) I haven't touched Mirage since 
January but plan to give it a go again in the next week or two, targeting Linux 
thence Android in the first instance.

I'll probably order a couple of boards anyway; I'm guessing anything labelled 
cubieboard2 will be the same(?). By default I was going to try one of the 
German resellers as there don't seem to be any UK ones yet, e.g. 
http://www.exp-tech.de/Mainboards/Kits/Cubieboard-2-Starter-Kit.html 
Thoughts/suggestions welcome

Cheers
Chris





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