Re: [Arm-netbook] microdesktop v1.7 arrived, works fine... but...

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:22 PM, wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 06:12:16 +0100 > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> ok so the story goes like this: >> >> back in august 2016 i got the

Re: [Arm-netbook] About, the rk processor.

2017-04-18 Thread zap
On 04/18/2017 05:09 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: 4x faster than the fastest processor on that "x200 libreboot device I am >>> I highly doubt it would be nearly that fast (at least for "general >>> computing"). >> Intel is on about the same ballpark as the big arm tablet chips but they >> can't

[Arm-netbook] microdesktop v1.7 arrived, works fine... but...

2017-04-18 Thread doark
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 06:12:16 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ok so the story goes like this: > > back in august 2016 i got the A20 card up and running with mainline > 4.7rc1 (or thereabouts), including patching in NAND support for a > proper mtd device. it worked...

Re: [Arm-netbook] About, the rk processor.

2017-04-18 Thread Bill Kontos
Intel is on about the same ballpark as the big arm tablet chips but they can't shrink it any further. They got this low simply from node shrinks, but at this point making a new core design only for the tablet market would require very high sale volumes. And they failed to infiltrate the tablet

Re: [Arm-netbook] About, the rk processor.

2017-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 4x faster than the fastest processor on that "x200 libreboot device I am I highly doubt it would be nearly that fast (at least for "general computing"). Stefan ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk

[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Eurocircuits NEWS - Fantastic Q1-2017

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i don't normally like/forward this kind of stuff but just as a reminder, the shiny PCBs i did of the laptop were from this company. the pricing for the (very specific!) budget-end PCBs with 12mil vias, 10mil tracks and clearance and no green colouring was really *really* low cost, for europe: i

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
's'good logic allan. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Allan Mwenda wrote: > The grandma who only reads pdfs is the best person to put on a completely > libre device because **they won't go out

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread Allan Mwenda
The grandma who only reads pdfs is the best person to put on a completely libre device because **they won't go out of their way to lose their freedom** I'd get a parabola card for them ASAP. The computer illiterate are another good target, because ** they are willing to learn without bias and

Re: [Arm-netbook] I saw your recent update, Luke

2017-04-18 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:30 AM, John Luke Gibson > wrote: >> https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/ > > fascinating. bizarre but fascinating. i seem to remember chris from >

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:17 AM, GaCuest wrote: > Maybe it's easier 3 speakers, a basic speaker directly for the > STM32F (when using only the STM32F) and two good > speakers, connected to the CM108H, when you use the > EOMA68 (in this case the speaker of the STM32F would not

Re: [Arm-netbook] I saw your recent update, Luke

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:30 AM, John Luke Gibson wrote: > On 4/16/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> so, first things, it wouldn't work (because it is necessary to ship >> with the sunxi 3.4.104+ kernel as it is the *only* linux kernel that >>

Re: [Arm-netbook] I saw your recent update, Luke

2017-04-18 Thread John Luke Gibson
On 4/16/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > so, first things, it wouldn't work (because it is necessary to ship > with the sunxi 3.4.104+ kernel as it is the *only* linux kernel that > supports the *FULL* set of hardware, and systemd is *NOT COMPATIBLE* Look what I found

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread GaCuest
El 18 de abril de 2017 a las 2:33:42, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) escribió: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:26 PM, GaCuest wrote: > > El 17 de abril de 2017 a las 14:30:27, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread John Luke Gibson
On 4/18/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:44 AM, John Luke Gibson > wrote: > >> Also, I forgot to mention: Chris, sleep well my good fellow.

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:44 AM, John Luke Gibson wrote: > Also, I forgot to mention: Chris, sleep well my good fellow. Luke, > what are you still doing awake :P i'm in taiwan! it's 5pm here.

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread John Luke Gibson
I would subdivide (b-ii) into: (b) (ii) people who are willing to apply creativity to learn how to program them. (1) people who seek out opportunities to apply creativity to learn how to program. (2) people who expect to be given opportunities to apply creativity

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:01 AM, John Luke Gibson wrote: > For many individuals without a creative appealing original > introduction into computers, I believe they are deeply concerned about > being less individual for starting a road headlong into being a > computer savant

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Louis Pearson wrote: > Ah, sorry, I just realized that I may have spoke in a confusing manner. :X > SecuShare, youbroketheinternet, and gnunet are all related. From what I > understand, SecuShare and youbroketheinternet are focused on