i was thinking at something like the Raspberry Pi, which does not have any memory built in, and everythin including bootloader is stored on sd card. On May 12, 2015 11:37 AM, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > the GTA04A5 has a NAND flash of 512 MB and a uSD reader up to 32 GB (see > photos on www.gta04.org). The NAND flash is mainly used for the boot > loader and a small rescue Linux system but real OS operation is done by > swapping such uSD cards. So you can for example have a uSD card for > Replicant and another one for QtMoko. Or put both on one in different > partitions. > > BR, > Nikolaus > > Am 12.05.2015 um 10:12 schrieb Liviu Farbas <[email protected]>: > > What about the emmc module? Will that module be removable? Or instead a > built in emmc, wouldn't be a better choice to add a SD card slot? It would > be really great to experiment with operating systems without the risk of > corrupting the emmc. > > Best regards, > > Liviu > On May 11, 2015 10:37 AM, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> you may wonder what is going on with this project. Did it turn into a >> black hole? Or >> did someone do a “rm -rf /“ :) >> >> No, nothing of that. Therefore, I think we owe you some short status >> update on this project. >> >> There hasn’t been much to report in the last months, but now we have >> several news >> within some days. >> >> 1. I have checked again and we can still get the GTM601W, but the >> distributor says >> the risk is high that OPTION declares EOL any time and in that case >> we would have >> to make an order of at least 3000 units so that they restart >> production just for us. >> >> This means we must secure these modules for us now, since there is no >> replacement >> that easily fits into the space constraints of the GTA04 (resp. >> GTA01/02 board). >> >> Cinterion modules would be nice since they are planned for the Pyra >> and the Neo900, >> but they are approx. 10% too big. >> >> 2. we see some difficulties in getting the W2SG0084 GPS module, but that >> is some >> paperwork the distributor has to do with Wi2Wi. >> >> Nevertheless, this is also a risk candidate for EOL because only one >> distributor shows >> stock. >> >> 3. There are also good news: >> we participate in the risk buy of Samsung 1GB RAM+512MB NAND chips >> (as >> planned for the Neo900). So the GAT04A5 gets twice as much RAM :) >> >> This chip has already been tested by reworking a BeagleBoard XM and >> modifying >> the boot loader (kernel didn’t find the NAND yet, but U-Boot did. >> This is a problem >> that will jointly be fixed with the Neo900 software team). >> >> 4. Production: we still are a little away from the quorum of 100 >> preorders (at the >> moment of this writing we have estimated approx. half = 45 units). >> So it is still >> not possible to make final decisions about production dates and >> final pricing. >> >> So we need to get a little more support for our project. If you have >> ideas, please >> let us know or start activities. Many small activities are as good >> as a big one! >> And we know that this is a niche product that requires an existing >> GTA01/02 >> device. So it is not possible to “attract the masses”. We must find >> and convince >> the previous GTA01/02 owners whose devices are collecting dust. >> There had been >> produced ca. 15k such devices so that we just need another 1/3% or >> in other >> words only 1 out of 300 GTA02 owners needs to decide for a GTA04A5. >> >> 5. Regarding the risk buy of the GTM601W, RAM chips and W2SG0084, I plan >> to >> take the budget (~5100 EUR) that we already have collected. >> >> This will transform the vouchers into ownership of components. So it >> has the >> consequence that we can’t refund in money (cash, bank transfer) any >> more, but >> only in unused hardware components (i.e. 100 EUR ~ >> 1*GTM601+1*RAM+1*GPS)… >> >> For future preorder vouchers you would also buy such a component set >> (which we >> would keep in safe warehouse of course) until we can really build >> the whole devices. >> >> >> So quite some news and I would be happy if we can fill up the missing >> preorders [1] >> sooner than later so that we can start production. Please think about >> securing your >> set of components for the last production batch of the most open >> smartphone platform >> that we already have. >> >> BR and thanks for continued support, >> Nikolaus Schaller >> >> [1]: http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04A5 >> _______________________________________________ >> Community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community >> http://www.openphoenux.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > http://www.openphoenux.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > http://www.openphoenux.org > >
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