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

[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] microdesktop v1.7 arrived, works fine... but...

2017-04-07 Thread zap
On 04/06/2017 07:05 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Vincent Legoll > wrote: >>> basic logical reasoning says: remove the NAND IC. >> Yes, stop

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

2017-04-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Vincent Legoll wrote: >> basic logical reasoning says: remove the NAND IC. > > Yes, stop the madness, make it work as-is/as-you-can, > and keep the fancy for V2

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

2017-04-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Joseph Honold wrote: > On 04/06/2017 12:12 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> now, i _could_ convert to eMMC but it's too much of a major redesign: >> it

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

2017-04-06 Thread Joseph Honold
On 04/06/2017 12:12 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > now, i _could_ convert to eMMC but it's too much of a major redesign: > it involves disrupting the RGB/TTL tracks, and may require at least > two more rounds of pre-production prototyping... > > ... it's too much: it's too risky... and

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

2017-04-06 Thread David Boddie
On Thu Apr 6 06:12:16 BST 2017, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ... it's too much: it's too risky... and i'm getting fed up. so. > what i'm going to do instead is: cut the NAND IC entirely, then wire > SDC2 (which is the same pins as the NAND) to the *ON-BOARD* Micro-SD > card slot,

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

2017-04-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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... up to a point... except when u-boot did a complete scan it CORRUPTED the NAND flash... just from