On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was just about to pledge (actually thinking for two boards) and then > noticed it has no SATA. ... this is a good example. you see how if a processor doesn't have the expected industry-standard interfaces and functionality, it's not commercially viable? i'd looked at the parallela earlier when it came out on slashdot last week. if it had the standard set of on-board interfaces - SATA, HDMI, RG-MII and so on - i'd go "GREAT!" and i'd even put up with the anticipated software hell. ... but they're not doing that. what they're asking you to fund them for is the mask charges and production costs of a chip which will *only* have multi-lane LVDS and a DDR RAM interface. this multi-lane LVDS will be wired up to an FPGA; the FPGA will be wired up to an ARM processor which *doesn't* even, as lennart has noticed, have SATA. they've had a great idea - get onto kickstarter, raise some awareness of the product - they may even have a great product *but* it's a *component* which needs to be part of a well-thought-out and well-executed *business* strategy with a targetted market (even if that target market is "general-purpose computing"). i wish they'd offered more, i really do. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/capweedyq+pydybyekddswvm3tmk6xs78mc025nxag-j3hjo...@mail.gmail.com
