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eoma68 u-boot 2015.07 and mainline kernel 4.7
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

... is up and running. got it working last night. i still have to flash it onto the NAND or SD card so that it can be properly tested, but i got the OS up over HDMI. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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Porcfest 2016 EOMA68 interview / podcast video up
by lkcl . 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Media Inquiries] My interview with you guys is up Date: 2016-07-20 12:11 PM To: chris(a)thinkpenguin.com Just thought you would want to know, the video with you guys is up. Feel free to promote or embed the video anywhere you like. https://youtu.be/VS3ynPz3cmc

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paul boddie
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

paul has been helping out a lot over the years with the eoma68 project, including some sponsorship. however i've learned that he's not been well and is now recovering slowly. i'd like to send him warm wishes to relax, get well and enjoy the campaign as entertainment, and invite people to wish him well and a full recovery. l.

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TODO list EOMA68 campaign
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

hiya folks ok much as a reminder to myself but also to let people know: * looks like i'm going to hope2016 (http://hope.net) in new york if anyone's in the area and is thinking of attending. * i'm currently building mainline u-boot (working) and mainline sunxi-next to see if it will work. i have a modified dtb from the cubieboard2 which worked previously when i tried a 3.15 nand rc5 fork by bbrezillon, it.. .ah... ended up with corrupted nand at the time (from u-boot. oops). * still TODO is a slashdot article, last one some people didn't like (editors?) and dropped it into binspam.... * the comparisons laptop update i added both sets of suggested mods (thanks to you both for the prompting). we do have one more consideration here, someone has pointed out that they're really not happy at the potential "personal criticism" of the vera apparatus arm64 team... there isn't any (there's not a single personal pronoun in the entire section). the update is there to show the effectiveness of the ethics, approach and implied (or explicitly-stated) committment to "open-ness"... and their wiki is shut off, there's no mailing list... i don't know what to do here because if i can't reach the team i can't offer them an opportunity to say something... suggestions welcome. * i'm thinking of putting the "pass through" card on the campaign, approximate pledge amount $40 (because in low-volume expected it'll be about a $20 BOM), that would turn the laptop housing into a battery-operated screen, keyboard and trackpad for any smartphone, USB-HDMI-dongle-PC, laptop or desktop PC. thoughts appreciated on that one. ok enough, feedback appreciated. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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u-boot and extlinux.conf directives
by Nick Hardiman 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Will the u-boot on the computer card be happy with these syslinux config directives? My u-boot skipped some of these with messages like: Ignoring unknown command: ui Ignoring unknown command: totaltimeout This is probably my fault - I was thrashing around in the dark. But I thought I’d check. Thanks, Nick extlinux.conf, copied from a Fedora 24 ARM image --- # extlinux.conf generated by appliance-creator ui menu.c32 menu autoboot Welcome to Fedora-Server-armhfp-24_Alpha-7. Automatic boot in # second{,s}. Press a key for options. menu title Fedora-Server-armhfp-24_Alpha-7 Boot Options. menu hidden timeout 20 totaltimeout 600 label Fedora-Server-armhfp-24_Alpha-7 (4.5.0-0.rc7.git0.2.fc24.armv7hl) kernel /vmlinuz-4.5.0-0.rc7.git0.2.fc24.armv7hl append ro root=UUID=8b0923ec-95c2-433a-b5e6-ee182429a320 fdtdir /dtb-4.5.0-0.rc7.git0.2.fc24.armv7hl/ initrd /initramfs-4.5.0-0.rc7.git0.2.fc24.armv7hl.img — links --- syslinux config directives http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Config Fedora changes https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/u-boot_syslinux ARM image https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/24/Server/armhfp/ima…

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crowdfunding page is live
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

the page is now live, and runs till the 26th august. please do help push that out to as many people as you can, blog about it, etc. we have thinkpenguin writing about it, liliputing is doing an article, i'll create a slashdot article, i'll be in touch with wired later today and so on. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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12th update
by Xavi Drudis Ferran 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

I had missed the laptop comparison in crowdsupply.com. I guess it is too late to change anything, but anyway, just in case someone thinks the links are relevant: On planned obsolescence: " The possibility of a manufacturer actually deciding to SHUT DOWN such laptops is not unthinkable. " Other kind of computers (Revolv home automation) have already been shut down ( I think, all news I have are from one month before the deadline) http://boingboing.net/2016/04/05/google-reaches-into-customers.html Summary: Google (or Alphabet) buys Nest. Nest buys competitor Revolv. They announce they will OTA-brick all of 300$-a-piece Revolv home automation hubs in May 2015. Customers are left to buy something else (if they aren't already fed up). Curious that you left out GTA04, neo900, Pyra. And the refurbished RYF laptops, which are (software) efforts to recycle old standard laptops with libreboot, and so have some FS and eco conciousness to them (by the way the Acer 201P hints that the Rockchip 3288 SOC might be usable in a future CPU card ? https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html if power allows http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/02/17/power-consumption-of-amlogic-s812-an… - not that Rockchip is a good company, from what I hear about GPL violations - anyway fixing the boot with JZ4775 cpu card maybe is more prioritary than designing new CPU cards). But I learned about a lot of projects I didn't know. Thank you. I also didn't know Tegra laptops were locked down. I though there was The Jetson TK1 board that people used with 100% free software http://embedded-computing.com/news/engineers-just-hours-get-new-nvidia-jets… But then Debian says it needs two blobs (firmware for graphics and USB xHCI, I don't know how usable it is without these) https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/NVIDIA/Jetson-TK1 I hoped some Tegra K1 laptop could be eventually liberated (K1 chromebooks have coreboot, no libreboot yet, and your update hints at they have already been found unliberable because of DRM in the laptops?). Btw, sorry for the trivia and mixing topics, but are there images available of the different colours offered for the EOMA68 laptop housing ?

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simplest internet connection
by Nick Hardiman 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hi, I saw the 'Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices’ crowd supply page a couple hours ago and have been trawling for more information for the last couple hours. I’ve got a question (apologies if I’ve missed something in front of my face). What is the simplest way to hook up a card like this to the Internet? This seems like an excellent approach to next-generation on-premise computing. But the videos, the mail archive and web pages I’ve viewed are all focussed on tablets and workstations. I’m basically a server-side computing guy, and I’d rather know about ethernet than KVM. Many thanks, Nick

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Linux Link Tech Show, Episode 6 hundred and sixty six... :)
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

http://tlltsarchive.org/archives/tllts_666-07-13-16.ogg --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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FSFE discussion list message
by Paul Boddie 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

Hello again, I've also posted a message to the FSFE discussion list about the campaign: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-July/011110.html There have been some discussions on that list about open hardware and the threats posed by proprietary hardware and the surveillance features of various CPU families, notably these threads: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-April/010912.html (Featuring an attempt to fund a POWER8-based workstation.) http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-June/011100.html (Hopes for "truly free processor architectures", which might not be such a fantasy after all, given improvements in Free Software for programmable logic and synthesis.) I rather hope for a solid discussion of the merits of the campaign, as opposed to people just claiming that it can't be done, won't work, or whatever. Paul

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