Hi Wad, Been reading some "lost" e-mails, sorry to be bumping this up.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:35 PM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > hi scott, thanks for joining in, here. > > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian > > <csc...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> Good luck with your SDR dreams. I think the most you can expect from > >> OLPC is that, *if* the 10 improbable things you described actually > >> come to pass, OLPC will someday include a miniPCI slot so that they > >> can plug in your magic daughtercard. > > > > miniPCI assumes there's a PCI bus. ARM SoCs don't have PCI (that i > > know of). the only SoC x86 chip i've heard about is the 1ghz IEC > > 100HV from RDC. but with ARM it'd have to be a mini PCI-e slot with > > the USB2 option - pins 36 and 34 - but that's been ruled out because > > john's removed all internal USB paths. the next gen x86 clone from > > RDC that they're planning will have full PCI-e. > > Actually, I got that miniPCI connector into XO-1.5. I won't go into > You did? I can't find any reference in the XO 1.5 diagrams. Is it already being used for something? Best regards, Tiago > all > the tradeoffs. It suffices to say that when the overall lifetime > costs of > 100K laptops are considered, it didn't increase the cost. > > But as with most networking cards, the miniPCI is just a form factor. > Most WiFi/GSM cards on the market electrically use a USB connection. > On XO-1.5, we use SDIO, but also provide a spare USB port to the miniPCI > (why not ?) The form factor is half-length miniPCI, and the pinout > is documented at: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/0/05/ > XO_1.5_Pinouts_C2.pdf > > > thank you for everyone's time, i'll be back again when i have more > > concrete news. > > Great. > > Cheers, > wad > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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