[Arm-netbook] A10 devkits

[Alejandro Mery]

>>>>  i think basically, eva's asked the upper management, and the answer
>>>> was no: she can't ask again.
>>>
>>> expectable... so how do we proceed now to buy the kits approved for $250? :-)
>>
>> sad... I really hoped to be able to get the kit shipped before the
>> spring festival
>
>  ... mmm... i've been kinda reluctant to push it, because, well... if
> you've got $250 to spare, i'd rather see it go towards EOMA68
> hardware, to be honest!

:-) no problem, I can reserve that budget for EOMA ;-) what's the
updated schedule?


>  also, one of the reasons for asking for the devkit was because it
> comes with the PCB schematics, and the key critical part that we
> needed was the CPU-DDR3 RAM portion.  we've got that now (thank you to
> wits-tech for making it available) so there's no reason for anyone to
> take up the Accounts Dept's time at allwinner tech which will probably
> cost them _more_ than the profit-margin they'd make on selling anyone
> the damn devkit!

ok


>  and, given that pretty much any 7in allwinner a10 tablet, esp with
> that SD-MMC break-out board and with USB booting is pretty much
> identical to the devkit _and_ is 1/2 the price...

I have one, Aura LY-F1, but to boot that from SD you need to use an
awful windows program called PhoenixCard which is in chinese... has
anyone made it work? :p can you document the process? :-)

Thanks!