On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Jerry Stuckle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> but even rockchip are not immune to the "supernova SoC" effect. that >> amazing 28nm $12 quad-core SoC - which is only sold to clients with >> good engineering resources (of whom there are extremely few - tom >> cubie's team is one of them) or it's sold with "full support" services >> to a handful of chinese tablet-tablet-tablet-tablet makers who have >> proven that they can shift 100k units - will be viewed with increasing >> unease by potential ODMs because of its age [under 9 months!]. >> > > Understand. But my client isn't in the tablet market. High speed, all > kinds of extra features, etc. is not necessary. All they need to do is > collect data and make it available via the ethernet port. well, there are plenty of SoCs out there that do that: even the STM32F207 can do ethernet... but it's a 120mhz ARM Cortex-M, has a limited amount of on-board RAM and so can't run debian (or any mainstream GNU/Linux OS for that matter). what i'm pointing out is that your client's requirements are completely and utterly 100% mutually exclusively incompatible, and that's really the end of the discussion. also, i have to say that on learning that you're a consultant, i'm reluctant to assist further unless there is a chance of some direct or indirect financial renumeration. either in the form of product orders or in the form of consultancy fees. apologies to those people on debian-arm, i believe this discussion may have strayed beyond the boundaries of debian-arm: i've tried to keep the discussion general however it is beginning to get into specifics so i won't take up peoples' time further on-list. jerry if you'd like to discuss this further off-list i'm happy to do so as long as it proves financially worthwile, directly or indirectly, for me to do so. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/capweedyypym4k6vw8p51-z0xkpxzhmkmb2g33x0_r6s87vi...@mail.gmail.com
