+++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2016-02-02 20:10 +0000]: > > Thing is, that project is stalled because a) Andy is working on both > > another project and deisgning/building a new house and b) they have > > failed to get AMD to commit to chip supply. So currently your design > > is looking a lot more like it might actually happen than theirs. > > *sigh* yeahh, it's quite likely that AMD hasn't actually got *anyone* > who's committed to it...
Softiron is selling hardware based on the AMD seattle, http://softiron.co.uk/products/ and there are 96board husky prototypes which I expect to be actually available as a board 'RSN'. So they have at least one real customer. > which is precisely why they should give them > some ICs due to the extremely high strategic value (debian developers > for goodness sake!!)... but can you get that across to AMD's marketing > and Directors? mmm... They did indeed agree in priciple but it neve actually happenned. There was much ructions at ADM last year I think. They had more important things to worry about. > > Good to see you at the weekend, and have a 'heft' of the machine. > > yeah you too - it's been a bit weird focussing so heavily on this > stuff for such a long time. > > 1.1kg - it's peanuts. i'm kinda confused as to why 15.6in laptops > are 2.3kg and above. More performance, bigger batteries, fans, heatsinks, ABS cases, metal frame in decent ones (the PItop shows how much heavier an ABS injection-moulded case is - A brick in comparison). Yours feels too light to be very robust, but I guess we'll see. The lightness helps itself to some degree, in the way of insects being unaffected by falls. I'm used to a solid lenovo X-series... > > It was nice :-) I feel inspired to update my eoma card and print some > > parts... > > awesome. well, the rev 1.1 card that you have should work with a bit > of modification - there's a couple of jumper leads you need to run, > i've modded one here - you'll only be able to run the LCD at 100% > brightness unless you compile up a software-PCM linux kernel module > and do a few other tricks.... just running 3.3v to the pin that's now > allocated as "PWM0" is the easiest temporary solution. I had a quick look but failed to find details of the screen, keyboard, boards and 3D parts online, other than scattered through many mailing list-messages. Never mind info like the above. Is there a page that actually has the info someone keen would need to get started? > but, it would only be needed for a few months: i need to do another > production run (rev 2.5) of the EOMA68-A20 PCB so there are more on > the way. ethernet is going, so you need to be prepared for that, and > have a USB-ETH dongle kicking around. Boo. But yes OK, that's do-able. What I really want is either an A64 EOMA68 board, or a baseboard that'll take the pine64...(as discussed, subject to heat limits). Still, that's all 'just hardware' (ha ha). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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