epoch1970 wrote: > So be it. > I have seen cases of USB key sudden death upon power loss that I assume > were due to the way flash memory performs writes. Also cases where the > medium turns read-only, irreversibly. (a quickly googled 'paper' > (http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/papers/DAC2011PowerCut.pdf) > related to the subject) > > If running the SD in read-only mode is the best way to ensure u-boot > remains available, player preferences (not to mention elaborate software > add-ons that could run on the player) still need to be written > somewhere. Perhaps the software people want to have a say on how the > board is powered (capacitor size, battery backup) to allow for safe > enough write operations? > > Please disregard this message if it doesn't make sense..
I think everyone is over complicating this - we have enough resources to build an excellent hardware and software platform based on taking what the cpu board already does and build on it. In the short term we should not be looking at changes to how the cpu card works, boots or how it gets its power. If the gen 1 cards prove sucessful then we can talk about how to add features, but we really need to make sure we focus on reusing what we get from the wandboard at present.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
