Hello,
Thru various and sundry means, I have acquired this unusual specimen; a ZeroDesktop MiiPC M1140.
This was originally intended to be a "family desktop PC" that runs on Android Jelly Bean and was released in 2013.
It looks like a TV box had a child with a NUC.
The machine runs a Marvell Armada 1500 Plus processor with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of storage.
The company, Zerodesktop, ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund producing these - my model is one of the Kickstarter Editions.
I know that the Marvell Armada 1500 was used in the Google Chromecast 2, along with a bunch of set top boxes.
ZeroDesktop no longer exists as a company, having only produced these machines between 2013-14 then going belly up. There are no software updates to the Android system available (nor any mention of the device or the Armada 1500 as a supported processor for Android distributions at all).
The only resources online about this device are about 7 out of date (mostly negative) tech reviews from the era.
I want to make this thing run Armbian. Does anyone have a clue how to do it? I see that there are 2 development boards made by Marvell listed here but they are vastly different processors. I'm definitely an advanced user but have never compiled my own build before, especially when the system components are so mysterious and info is unavailable like this.
I am up for the challenge if anyone can assist. Thank you!
