[Arm-netbook] One or more projects?

[Joakim Seeberg]

Thanks Luke, now everything makes more sense but not less interesting.

- Joakim

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton skrev:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Joakim Seeberg <kontakt at seebergit.dk> wrote:
>   
>> Could someone please explain to me who is working on what here?
>> As I understand Luke is working on a so-dimm reference design for use in
>> different Arm computers to be designed later.
>>     
>
>  not quite - it is to go into the chitech CT-PC89E [and also the
> Si-Chang 7in MID, but that's another story] AND it is for use in
> different arm computers to be designed later, thus making the SO-DIMM
> a standard.
>
>   
>> Michelle are you doing a separate arm project or a part of the above?
>>
>> Others?
>>     
>
>  ok - i have a habit of pursuing several things at once: it keeps me
> from going bored.
>
>  this is what's going on:
>
>  there are _three_ independent SO-DIMM designers that i know of, all
> of whom i'm encouraging to make compatible designs.
>
>  * the original is the SEATRON S3C6410 667mhz ARM11;
>  * michelle the crazy girl is going to try a 1.8ghz / 2ghz Marvell (i
> hope you can get enough power through the 2 pins, michelle!);
>  * another designer has done a Cortex A8 600-720mhz OMAP35xx design;
>  * james i have asked if he can make the S5PC100/S5PC110 Cortex A8
> 833mhz-1ghz design.
>
>  then, the other side: what chassis will these interoperable SO-DIMMs go into?
>
>  * there is the 8.9in chitech netbook and there is the Si-Chang 7in MID;
>  * then there are the tablets that michelle wants to design.
>  * then, adam is going to talk to Si-Chang and also to Hong Kong
> Electronics companies at trade shows in 3rd week of april, to ask if
> they would like to make 10.1in and bigger netbook chassis'
>
> so by using the same SO-DIMM standard specification, all of these
> machines could be upgraded and are future-proofed, and end-users have
> a range of price-point options to choose from.
>
>  at the same time, i am pursuing the idea of doing an
> "open-pandora-esque" survey to find out if there are more people who
> want 100% free software machines, and with what kinds of
> specifications, and are they prepared, just like with the
> open-pandora, to pay some money up-front, to get it made if it can't
> be bought off-the-shelf.
>
>  i'm fed up of waiting around for retailers to buy machines so that we
> _might_ be able to get what we want: sod it, let's just get it done.
>
>  that's the plan.
>
> l.
>
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