Group: Hardware/Computers/Laptops/Freeable laptops/Hercules eCAFE
Introduction
Hercules made the following laptops with an I.MX51 ARM system on a chip:
- eCAFE EX HD
- eCAFE slim HD
Here are some more information on the hardware:
- 512M of RAM
- There is an USB OTG port
- The device is capable of booting from an SD card
They ship with u-boot, and more recent u-boot versions have been maintained by the free software and open source communities. There is also a device tree available but it needs to be upstreamed in Linux.
Once that will be upstreamed, it will be possible to use them with only free software, with u-boot and Parabola, but it will still have some serious flaws as important features like the 3D acceleration and accelerated video decoding will still be missing.