Not my board, so not my call, but the rules are that you can't offer to sell anything here that you don't have a right to sell.
I should be perfectly ok then, if / when at some undetermined point in the future I get a lot further along, finish, get my shiyat into gear
I like the technical talk and am interested to see where you can go with this.
Thanks. Its quite a lot like like detective work, I enjoy making progress on stuff like this, plus I get to (l)earn "l33t" skills in reverse engineering and reading fun fun fun data sheets. I started out as an embedded systems guy in the early 90's in South Africa, but then moved to China to do IT, so this is hobbyist level stuff for me, to keep my skillset up to date
My last "self induced" project was similar work on IP Camera stuff - reverse engineering hardware, and seeing how it ticked. I setup a community site for that myself after the posts on that took over my blog commentwise.
I'll probably do that with this board at some point, but I guess another few posts won't hurt.
Back to the specs/future dreams
The board is a dual core* @ 400mhz, underclocked to 336mhz on this.
*white lies. It does have a CPU+GPU though, so technically its "dual core".
The video chipset has hardware rotation, and the chip has a frame buffer, so rotation looks doable. Its MIPS vs ARM, but I think this kicks Raspberry PI's ass in terms of CPU, mostly as thats an ancient ARM5 core, and this has MMU etc..
What makes this interesting for me (and others I guess), is that unlike most other Chinese SoC's this one has actual documentation, and BSP's freely available. Thats highly unusual. Most of the time you need to beg, borrow or steal, er I mean acquire torrents / rapidshare rar's of said items.
I'm nowhere near anything practical yet. Right now its a 2nd weekend working on it, but lots of good interesting progress.
Linux is going to be fairly easy to port as its 99% Gamebox GBX-0001 equivalent or 90% A380 Dingoo hardware, and the major work has already been done for that by others, so its mostly tweaks to get their stuff booting.
We don't have SD though, and no screen or serial, so its going to be a case of make extremely sure I don't screwup, otherwise I'll be out a board if I go too far wrong...
I'm not sure yet whether I go linux, or replace the emulator(s) used by the current MINIOS by rejigging the firmware, and sticking another better compiled one inside. The latter looks like an easier route for now. As to using Android on this, 64M ram is not really enough to run another emulation layer on top of an OS. Its never a good idea imho, unless you have oodles of CPU+RAM to spare.
In this case its MP4 player chipset hardware with fairly decent NAND size, ok RAM size, semi decent video for its class, so whatever the Dingoo or GameBox BGX001 does at the moment will be fairly similar speedwise. Its the same thing as those 2 in a different form factor, but with JAMMA.
Definitely room for improvement on current speeds emulated though.