[Arm-netbook] motherboard design

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Mon Apr 16 08:32:54 BST 2012


On 04/13/12 19:36, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> fre 2012-04-13 klockan 18:57 +0100 skrev lkcl luke:
>
>>   add it to the community ideas wiki page, simon.  a low-cost version
>> of this would have to be using a factory-installed A10 EOMA-68 CPU
>> card.  i thiiiink  i specified on the 44 pins that at least one of the
>> T2 interfaces be on it....
>
> Or use one DVB->USB gadget. Not as power efficient but avoids the
> problem of T2 interface drivers not in the A10 kernel and MPEG-TS stream
> demultiplexer also not documented..

using usb is an obvious way to go
but linuxtv.org has gazillion drivers

i just look at all the set top boxes running linux that are out there 
and think GBP200 is just a little overpriced

even taking a chunky profit margin i believe it would be possible to 
build something for half that



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