[btw apologies phil, just throwing in arm-netbook in, for archive purposes (i'm that list's admin), feel free to remove it again if you wish, but i can't bcc it because mailman's configured to block bcc whoops]
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Phil Endecott <[email protected]> wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton <at> gmail.com> writes: > > (Comparing with my i.MX53 board:) > >> * ARM cortex A10 1.5ghz - see this for a "definition" of A10 in this context: >> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110912200637AAmOkiG > > So that's A8, with Mali GPU. 50% faster clock speed than the i.MX53. > >> * RAM: we're going for the full 2gb. the little factory is finding >> out if the full 2gb of RAM is in fact properly supported. the >> hardware supports 2gb RAM, but because nobody has done anything other >> than 512mb not even the SoC people know if it does 2gb! amazing :) > > I'm happy with the 1GB that I have. yeah 2gb is overkill, but the factory is designing for the full 2gb, what the heck, why not. > So what seems to be missing is: > > - Audio. It must have this. Perhaps you've just forgotten to mention it. yes, sorry. ok. the reason for that is two-fold: 0) i should have mentioned that i asked the factory to put on a 5-way 3.5mm audio jack, see http://magniel.com/omapmod.html - yuli added one to his OMAPMOD. that audio jack gets you stereo spk (& mic i think) in a very compact space, and you can get ipphon headphones and adaptors no problem. 1) i was planning to use an STM32F (leafpad maple, it's open source hardware design, arduino-compliant), on the motherboard(s) and just implement the audio entirely in software. as it's a 75mhz Cortex M3, it'll definitely be up to the job. and it's cheap. regarding 1) yes i've looked up libopenstm32f and it's GPLv3+ _love_ it... ["you want firmware? i give ya firmware _and_ yer give me da damn source code too or i poke yer inna eye wiv da SFLC ya thieving coppyrite barsterds"] :) sorry, normal incomprehensible service resumed... > - Analogue video output. I've seen a chip block diagram that suggest that it > has "TV Out", and also "TV In". But that might be the wrong chip because it > doesn't show SATA. *lol* it's there... they just haven't gone and put it on the web site, or even in the datasheets, because nobody but us has asked about it! amazing. it's on the Reference Board, but everyone in every other china factory has cut it from the schematics! and the 10/100 ethernet, too. incredible. they all want to sell tablets, tablets, tablets. oh, and internet tv set-top-boxes, too, but mostly tablets, tablets, tablets. > Analogue video out is something that I'm using on my i.MX > board, and is nice to have. oh right, ok. hm, can you check something for me? can you find out if the following connectors fit into 53mm? micro-hdmi micro-sd micro usb-otg 3.5mm audio {insert video jack} otherwise, apologies: it'll just have to be on an unpopulated expansion header (with all the other things that don't fit). l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDw1_km_V9xEVV0[email protected]
