Last year it was great seeing your presentation and getting a chance to bounce some ideas off you at FOSDEM. The 2013 schedule is still open - are you planning to go again this year and / or give a talk?

The OpenSSL libraries in Android are in the /system partition, and hence, can be patched via OTA update. So yes, they are provided by the OS. And unless the API has changed for OpenSSL (likely not), all Android apps require no modification to be considered secure after said OTA update. Rather than attempting to discourage Android app developers, the linked article really should just be putting pressure on Google, OHA members, and carriers to release OTA updates that include a patch to OpenSSL.

In Canada, restaurants pay people to take this away, and they give it to people who will use it for biofuel :P

yea, totally.

Also, I bet there will be a big handful of mechanics who get a nice 10A buzz when they remove the panels without properly discharging the capacitors first.

My first question would be about the power that board is consuming ddr3 support (800+ MT/s). Keep in mind that transistors sink the most amount of current (i.e. consume power) when they are in the process of switching from '0' to '1' and vice versa. So if The bus speed has just increased by at least a factor of 4, then power consumption might have increased proportionally. A think a performance-per-watt graph comparing the Exynos chip and a dual core atom is in order (ahem.... tom's ... cough... hardware... sniff).

My next question would be, "where are the Mali GPU drivers?" A free as in speech implementation of all patent unencumbered interfaces of this GPU would be brilliant. Can't wait to talk to the Linaro devs ;-)

Doubleplusungood

ARM EABI := little endian, x86 := little endian ... problem solved.

It's often ___immeasureably__ useful to get some (any) kind of console output when porting Linux to an existing device running e.g. windows mobile 5 or 6. Take a look at HaRET. Porting is often harder than most would imagine, as some manufacturers actively use hardware obfuscation methods to prevent hacktivists from getting console access.

Try to imagine how long it would take to use LEDs or haptic feedback to iteratively check all conditions required to bring up Linux on a board without a serial port. The first thing you would probably do is try to use a hardware subsystem that was known to work and fashion a serial port out of it. This is the same concept but graphical.

Great work!