The potential availability of Free EOMA68 cards is terrific. I was
astounded to learn about Intel ME and the AMD equivalent. Eventually
we'll run out of old Intel and AMD chips, and will have to wean
ourselves from them, unless we can persuade them to change.
I have two technical questions I'm sure people in this community will be
able to answer. Obviously you wouldn't be speaking for the designer....
First, if one got the EOMA68 with the Mali GPU and installed Parabola
on it, so that the GPU wouldn't be used, would the system be able to
fall back on using the CPU, as in the Libre Tea card?
Second, what would be involved with making a laptop based on a EOMA68
but with a large-capacity hard drive (say 250GB or more)? Of course,
revising the laptop chassis design to make space for the drive. What
about connecting automatically when the EOMA68 card is slipped in, and
supplying power? Any idea whether these would be easy or hard issues to
manage?
Thanks,
Jim Garrett
