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[Arm-netbook] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/11/14/1240245/china-threatens-to-cut-sales-of-iphones-and-us-cars-if-naive-trump-pursues-trade-war
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

ok, so the two key areas that i've been focussed on - computing and vehicles - the new completely incompetent president (voted in by the american people) may have triggered the conditions i was anticipating, for which the EOMA initiative is PRECISELY designed to migitate. there is now some urgency to getting the EOMA68 designs out and into mass-production. it's not about what happens if china carries out this first threat, it's what happens long-term, both to china and to the rest of the world, if the U.S. President is stupid enough to think that U.S.-China trade is not absolutely critical to both countries (and to the rest of the world). to put this into immediate perspective: the EOMA68 project items that people have pledged for: those people in the USA may end up having to pay that 45% tariff. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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eoma68-a20 v2.6 samples working
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

briefly: samples are working, as is the micro-desktop v1.4 - still to confirm: hdmi, nand, 2gb memory and the eoma68 micro-sd. l.

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closed-source BootROM and RYF certification
by Parobalth 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

My original message went to moderation queue because it exceeded the allowed file size. So I am forwarding my message without the pdf attachment to the list. ----- Forwarded message from Parobalth <parobalth(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:13:10 +0200 From: Parobalth <parobalth(a)gmail.com> To: arm-netbook(a)lists.phcomp.co.uk Subject: closed-source BootROM and RYF certification User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) At the forum of NextThing Chip is a thread about Chip and a possible RYF certification. I wrote there that I think that is unlikely to happen and linked to https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fsf-ryf-background. Then someone else mentioned that a closed-source BootROM is used for Chip. Another guy with username "eaterjolly" wrote about this BootROM: "The same type of SOC is used for the EOMA croud project which is vying for ryf-endorsement quite openly [...]" You can find the forum thread here: https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/ntc-thoughts-on-ryf-endorsement/4490 Because they use Discourse to power their forum which relies heavily on JavaScript I also attach a Pdf version of the forum post. I wonder if the mentioned statements are correct and how it relates to the RYF certification of the EOMA68-A20 Libre Tea card. kind regards Paro ----- End forwarded message -----

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Block Diagram - ZEOMA - Handheld Games Console
by GaCuest 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Hello everyone. I suppose many of you know the handheld games console project based on EOMA68 (the provisional name is ZEOMA). The website (it is outdated (the images are also outdated), when the project is more advanced I'll update) (thanks to Peter Bouda) is: http://www.ubrew.it/ The features of the console are: - 4.5 inch 480x854 IPS screen. - Resistive touch panel. - DPad + A B X Y buttons + R button + L button + 2 Analog triggers + 2 Analog Joystick (with push button) + Start + Select + Home + Vol +/- + 2 extra buttons. - 4000 mAh battery. - Stereo. - MicroSD slot. - USB 2.0 Host. - MicroUSB (for charging). - STM32F072 for controls. - AR9271 WIFI. I have done a small block diagram you can see here: http://george.the-petries.co.uk/shared-write-access/eoma/Block%20Diagram%20… I have placed the datasheets of the components here: http://george.the-petries.co.uk/shared-write-access/eoma/Datasheets%20ZEOMA/ I have no prior experience designing schematics and PCB, but I will try to do my best. If I have any questions, I will ask you. I will publish all the schematics and PCB under GPLv3+. If anyone have any suggestions or improvement, I appreciate it. Thanks to Luke for all his help. Also thanks to Alexander for allowing us to store the files of the project in his server.

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nexell s5p6818 pcb v0.1
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

http://rhombus-tech.net/nexell/s5p6818/news/First_Nexell_EOMA68_S5P6818_PCB… on the way. final 0.1 pcb revision sent to nexell for review. l.

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s5p6818
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

i've met with zhongweisemi (nexell's authorised agent in shenzen), really nice people, i've got access to the s5p6818 and am doing a conversion of one of their reference designs to eoma68. this board will ***NOT*** be available as a replacement for eoma68-a20 crowd-funded pledges, the pricing and MOQs had been set and may not be renegotiated without significant loss of future business due to an obviously adverse impact (reneging on promised orders). l.

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microdesktop and eoma68-a20 new pcb revisions, pictures
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/micro_desktop/news/Microdesktop_Rev… http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/ briefly, mike very kindly took these photos, we're sorting out the components to get them populated, i'll be back in shenzen on tuesday for the rest of the 2nd 30-day china visa period, hopefully we can get these populated, tested, and approved for 1k production run of the A20 board and 500 for the microdesktop. we can then start testing and shipping, get them out to people. lots to do... l.

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Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)
by Paul Boddie 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hello, I saw this on Planet Debian today: "Once more this is where, once again, the story turns bleak. We find a very pretty website but no obvious link to the software (hint scroll to the bottom and find the "support" wiki link) once you find the wiki you will eventually discover that the provided software is either an Android 5.1.1 image (which failed to start on my board) or relies on some random guy from the forums who has put together his own OS images using a hacked up Allwinner Board Support Package (BSP) kernel." http://vincentsanders.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-pine-stays-green-in-winter- wisdom.html I wonder what the licence compliance situation is with the vendor's own software. And some of the other experiences, particularly involving reliability, give a depressing sense of déjà vu to anyone with any moderate amount of experience with ambitious single-board computer efforts where the vendor shipped hardware without proper software support, arguably to get "bottoms on seats" and to drum up business. The author also makes some pertinent remarks about form-factor proliferation which seems appropriate to mention here, too. :-) Paul

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routing vpns over ssh
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

i can't quite believe that i'm having to route my vpn access over an ssh tunnel in order to then put HTTP proxy over the VPN in order to get frickin internet access to my email and anything at all. the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located... ... which is in the lobby of allwinner's headquarters in zhuhai :) well done cisco! :)

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Fwd: anyone here running unstable on i.MX7?
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

looks like a great processor. interesting to see what happens with it. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christopher Barry <cbarry(a)symbiaudix.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:05:49 -0400 Subject: anyone here running unstable on i.MX7? To: debian-arm <debian-arm(a)lists.debian.org> Greetings, I just got a new devkit from EmbeddedArtists with the tiny new i.MX7 Dual uCOM board. http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/com/imx7dual_ucom.php Anyone here running the latest armhf debian on this? If so, what can you share about your experiences getting it up and running (or not...)? Thanks! -- Regards, Christopher Barry

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