[Arm-netbook] Allwinner A10 - Expected Tablet Costs and PCIe

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> I didn't notice any PCIe lanes in the specs for the Allwinner A10.

 no.

> Is the Allwinner A10 PCIe free?

 yes.  and low-power as a result.  and low-cost.  only 441 pins, 0.8
BGA grid.  virtually all of those are multiplexed.

> The majority of ARM soc's lack a realtime I/O.

 yep.  low power equates to high latency.  realtime I/O directly
conflicts with that.  c'est la vie.

> An I/O with a interrupt latency response times in the few
> microseconds or less. There are very few ARM soc's with PCIe. There have
> also attempts at a high speed I/O on ARM soc's but they ended up being
> buggy or to slow in production.

 yyep.  it takes far too much power.

> Has anyone heard what the expected wholesale tablet prices will be for
> tablets using the Allwinner A10 in China?

 abbbsolutely nuts.  it's causing massive problems.  look up the
"BMorn" tablet for example.

> Any idea if the tablets will
> have or be capable of using an open bootloader+firmware?

 the ones we'll be doing, will make damn sure of it.

 l.