arm-netbook

arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk

1082 discussions

EOMA68 Microdesktop Revision 1.4
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 10 Sep '16

10 Sep '16

https://youtu.be/E9root8aZFA must add this to the news page, just sending for now. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

1 0

microdesktop pcb
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

eeek, i started on the microdesktop pcb again, prior to sending it off for prototyping cost-estimates and samples, and found that the USB ports were mirror-imaged! thank goodness i checked. we're off to HK in about 44 hours time, it's a looong flight. update about the past couple of weeks to be on crowdsupply shortly. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

2 1

Wikipedia's EOMA68 page
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

... is going to quickly turn into a clusterf*** if people don't step in sharp-ish and help out. > [Wikipedia correctness and authoritative edits] > >> interesting situation - one that wikipedia's clearly never had to deal >> with before. > > Rather than spend a paragraph or two talking about that, I suggest that we > just build more robust external sources that the Wikipedia page can make use > of. Personally, I'm not a Wikipedia person, but I can possibly spend a little > more time looking at the page. (My previous edits were mostly about fixing up > citations, of which more are needed as the page stands.) yeahyeah, i noticed - appreciated. okay. well, i've had to revert *six* false and misleading statements on the page... so far. unfortunately the wikifascists [1] are beginning to step in - one of them unfortunately has Administrative rights. a "COI" notice was set up: this resulted in a rash of further misleading and factually incorrect statements being made. if people care about this, can you please step in? l. [1] definition (2) of http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fascist

3 13

Puzzle Phone? FOSS?
by Alexander .S.T. Ross 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

catching up with the news that project ara is dead i leant of puzzlephone: http://www.puzzlephone.com does anyone know weather they mean by them taking care of firmware? Do they mean 100% FLOSS or other?

2 1

USB-to-Ethernet efficient throughput
by SohKa 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hello Does anyone have an idea of the efficient throughput with an Ethernet adapter connected to the micro-usb-otg port of the EOMA68 or to the USB2 ports of the micro desktop housing ? SohKa

2 1

EOMA68: DRM and Tivoisation
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68#DRM_and_Tivois… i've added a specific section on tivoisation and drm - basically it's not permitted. it didn't occur to me to add this until the issue of the RYF Certification came up, where it was discussed the rather scary prospect on the horizon of USB3 devices not working due to there being some weird "online firmware real-time download database". it suddenly occurred to me that if there isn't a specific section which explains why DRM is not permitted (because it stops interoperability), someone might actually think it's okay to implement DRM. i can only think of *one* instance where DRM is okay, and that's in an *isolated* Hardware-Virtualised (Guest) OS... and that's only if its tentacles don't extend *outside* of that OS. any thoughts which can make this clearer really appreciated. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

3 3

As promised... a small fix to the Wiki
by Mike Leimon 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Okay, I think I finally got this one section of the wikipedia page correctly ironed out now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOMA68#Size I did notice while I was cross checking things though, that the PC Card spec for Type III cards is actually 10.5mm in height, not 8mm (as it is for the EOMA68 spec). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card#Type_III I'm not sure if this is an issue or not but, I'm going to point it out to all of you anyhow. If I get a chance later I'll try to take a closer look at some of the other sections too. -Mike p.s. Ugh.. after reading Luke's last email comment about articles-for-deletion, I'm now wondering if I just wasted my time fixing that.

1 0

One issue with the EOMA68 Wikipedia
by Mike Leimon 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Luke, I took a quick glance at the Wikipedia entry and saw what I thought was an error and I will fix the problem if you can confirm that I understand the situation correctly. The wikipedia article says the following: """ There are two different physical profiles of EOMA68 (based around the legacy PCMCIA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMCIA> classifications):[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOMA-68#cite_note-2> - 54 mm × 85.6 mm; 5mm variant (Type II) - 54 mm × 85.6 mm; 3.3mm variant (Type I) Type I is reserved for up to 1366x768 RGB/TTL video output; Type II is reserved for up to 1920x1080 RGB/TTL video output, on the basis that a Type I 3.3mm card may fit into a Type II 5.0mm socket but not vice versa. Thus, a module with a lower-capacity video output will physically be prevented from being used with incompatible higher-resolution devices, preventing any possible confusion about interoperability. """ However, as I understand things, the second part of the article is incorrect and should probably be as follows: """ Type II is reserved for up to 1366x768 RGB/TTL video output; Type I is reserved for up to 1920x1080 RGB/TTL video output, on the basis that a Type I 3.3mm card may fit into a Type II 5.0mm socket but not vice versa. Thus, a module with a lower-capacity video output will physically be prevented from being used with incompatible higher-resolution devices, preventing any possible confusion about interoperability. """ Please respond and let me know if I am understanding this issue correctly and if so, I'll make this correction to the article after I am back home from work for the day. I'm not sure about any other issues with the article but, when I get a chance I'll try to take a closer look at it (maybe some time tomorrow). -Mike

3 5

EOMA-68 or EOMA68? How to write name?
by Alexander .S.T. Ross 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

I’m not sure anymore. how are you supposed to write eoma-68? with or without the dash "-"? Could you clarify how the name is written, on the elinux wiki page please. could it also be unofficial or official, as to weather for referring to all/any eoma standard if the notation of eoma*/eoma-* counts/is permitted/ok? cus ive been using it as a young cool shorthand :). reminds me of diaspora*/D* and how they use the wildcard in there logo. if its not ok, then ill stop and use "a eoma standard" instead. Thanks!

2 2

EOMA68 A20 DDR3 SA15 (2GB addressing), finance records in bugtracker
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

http://bugs.rhombus-tech.net/index_by_target.html i'm keeping a record of the amounts in and out. thinkpenguin (my sponsor) is handling the money... which if you've been following (running) the assess_campaign.py program is pretty much gone / accounted for. there are a number of reasons why the amounts are being published, not least is so that people can see exactly where the money's going, but also to ensure that it is absolutely clear that this is *NOT* being run as a "profit maximising business". over the past five years i've put at least $40,000 of my own personal funds into this; over the past two years thinkpenguin has sponsored the project with a further $60,000 approximately (so far). one of the other reasons for making this clear statement on-list is because now that there exists a wikipedia page, we're getting well-meaning people try and contribute to it, and, so far, there's a 100% track record of the contributions being factually incorrect, misleading and just plain wrong. that's led to me having to step in to correct them, which has led to a request that i make a (false) declaration that there exists a "conflict" between the two roles {wikipedia editor | guardian and editor} of the EOMA68 open Creative Commons Licensed {wikipedia page | Standard} on the wikimedia site {wikipedia.org | elinux.org}. it's yet to be demonstrated that such a "conflict" exists. i absolutely flat-out refuse to make a publicly auditable FALSE declaration that a conflict exists when it does not: that brings both the EOMA68 standard *and* wikipedia into disrepute. interesting situation - one that wikipedia's clearly never had to deal with before. http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/ the DDR3 RAM address line that needed to be added has been done... it's extremely tight and has been quite disruptive. i'll need to do some close inspection of what the auto-router's altered during the many push-and-shove events required to make room for the extra address line. the problem is that if it wasn't planned for, the available space is used up for VIAs and components that literally makes it impossible to get the extra track into the available space without considerable knock-on modifications. at the time that the original A10 board was done, we actually didn't *know* if it was possible to do 4x DDR3x8 2GB RAM layout: it was only tom cubie's team who discovered the extra address line and used it with the Cubietruck. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

2 2

Jump to page:

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

arm-netbook