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On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Dima Krasner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm Dima (more info about me at dimakrasner.com) and I'm new here, so ... > hi. hii dima, nice to meet you. > For years I've been following the ARM scene, since I'm very interested in > libre hardware projects. cool > Chinese ARM netbooks with WonerMedia chips (8850, 8880, etc') are very > common in sites like AliExpress and Ebay and they're pretty darn cheap. > Performance, RAM amount limit and decoder performance should be reasonable, > compared to other cheap ARM boards. > > I see the WM8950 has been evaluated, but the wiki doesn't say what's wrong > with it. As far as I can tell it's yet another Mali-400 board. the issue is: we have no idea to contact to get a Reference Design from. > Although I understand while the A20 is preferred to WonderMedia chips (it > makes life easier on the software front, probably more than any other > non-x86 SoC), I wonder, what makes them unacceptable in RYF hardware? Is > there any technical issue that I've missed? they're most likely acceptable... but if you can't even get a datasheet let alone an example design with the DDR RAM already laid out, it's something like a $40k risky investment of a *lot* of time (multiple revisions) to get it done. and i just haven't got time. if you happen to *know* where to get hold of a full Reference Design of something with a quad-core especially an arm64 WM SoC that's in 28nm or below, then i'm definitely interested. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
