ARM Boards
These boards are available to anyone in the community who is interested in improving their support.
Project Ideas
These are some of the things you could do with the ARM boards. They can also be done with a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3.
- reduce I/O in the shell and the session
- improve graphics performance in the Shell
- Reverse engineer the Mali GPU
- GPIO Portal support for flatpak
- remote deployment of flatpaks from a laptop to an external device
Feel free to add your own ideas for how GNOME's support for these devices can be improved.
How to request one
Get in touch with aruiz at gnome dot org
BananaPis
These have a Mali GPU, which requires a proprietary driver (instructions for how to install it).
Model |
Description |
Lent to |
BananaPi M1 |
dual 1GHz/1GB DDR3/Mali-400 MP2 |
Alex Larsson |
BananaPi M1 |
dual 1GHz/1GB DDR3/Mali-400 MP2 |
Alberto Ruiz |
BananaPi M1+ |
dual 1GHz/1GB DDR3/Mali-400 MP2/Wifi |
Alberto Ruiz |
BananaPi M2 |
quad 1.2GHz/1GB DDR3/PowerVR SGX54MP2/Wifi |
Alberto Ruiz |
BananaPi M2 |
quad 1.2GHz/1GB DDR3/PowerVR SGX54MP2/Wifi |
Alberto Ruiz |
DragonBoards
These can run GNOME Shell and Wayland with a free stack, as the GPU has free drivers.
DragonBoard 410c |
quad 1.2Ghz/64bit/1GB LPDDR3/Adreno 306 GPU/8GB eMMC/Wifi/BT/GPS |
Peter Robinson (Fedora) |
DragonBoard 410c |
quad 1.2Ghz/64bit/1GB LPDDR3/Adreno 306 GPU/8GB eMMC/Wifi/BT/GPS |
Richard Hughes |
DragonBoard 410c |
quad 1.2Ghz/64bit/1GB LPDDR3/Adreno 306 GPU/8GB eMMC/Wifi/BT/GPS |
Alberto Ruiz |
DragonBoard 410c |
quad 1.2Ghz/64bit/1GB LPDDR3/Adreno 306 GPU/8GB eMMC/Wifi/BT/GPS |
Alberto Ruiz |