[Arm-netbook] so where does ULP-COM fit into our thinking?

[luke.leighton]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 03:05 PM, green wrote:
>> Simon Kenyon wrote at 2012-10-10 02:43 -0500:
>>> do we really, really think that people will be swapping cards between
>>> enclosures on an hourly basis? i think it is worth looking at the relative
>>> costs of the card and the devices. it would seem likely that people would
>>> have one card per device and only change the card when there was a major
>>> upgrade in the card capabilities.
>>
>> My personal usage would include somehow switching from pocket-size tablet to
>> laptop multiple times per day, whether by moving a EOMA68 card or by simply
>> connecting the display and keyboard by cable.  The advantages as I see it are
>> only a single operating system to maintain and a practically identical
>> software experience regardless of chassis style.  Synchronization across many
>> devices, architectures, and operating systems suddenly becomes a non-issue.
>
> I can see this type of usage leading to a really poor experience as the
> screen resolution changes. All the desktop icons would get re-arranged,
> and different device formats require a fundamentally different user
> interface.

 one way to solve this is to have entirely different OSes boot up,
using the I2C EEPROM to decide which to use.  you could even have
multiple swap partitions to store uswsusp state so that you could
return to the exact same point when the card was returned to the same
chassis.

 l.