[Arm-netbook] A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics completed

[Alejandro Mery]

On 7 September 2012 19:38, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> - will these schematics be open sourced? when?
>
>
> don't know.  that'll have to be a question asked of wits-tech, at some
> point.  i feel that they'll need to receive some revenue first from their
> work, before committing to that, or to have the strategy and the clear
> financial benefits to them clearly explained.

uhm... time to `sed` out all the "Open Hardware Project" references
from the wiki :'-(


>> - does this new $relation$ with Wits gives us something new regarding
>> the CedarX libraries and access to their latest u-boot/linux sources?
>
>
>  no.  wits-tech != allwinner.

can you explain a little their relation?


> i'll get to that in good time, once there is
> a clear need which *directly* financially affects allwinner if the request
> for the source code is not fulfilled.  for example, a TV product which a
> client wants, where it simply won't work without the source code, and
> allwinner would lose $NNm/yr in revenue.
>
>  under such circumstances, i will ask.  however, i'm not going to ask
> *until* such circumstances arise.

frustrating but expected.

>> - any plan to make also a good eoma68 laptop soon?
>>
>
>  yes - a 14in laptop, by 10th october.

that's why I added the "good" token to the question ;-) your client is
price oriented, and at least for me a arguably portable 14" notebook
with worse screen resolution than a modern 4" phone hardly qualifies
as "good" under the expectations of the geeks in this list :)

... and about the term "laptop", imo the term implies you can
comfortably work with it on your "lap"... and imo that goes into the
10" < x <13" range


> that's what i mentioned above,
> already.  our PRC client wants 25 laptops done by the 10th of october.  i'm
> offering people the opportunity to be put in touch directly with the ODMs
> we've selected who will be making the PCB and doing the conversion work, to
> increase that number of machines *above* 25.
>
>  obviously, the absolute top priority will have to be on getting the 25
> machines done by 10th october, but anyone else can have their completed
> laptops at any time convenient to the ODM, at the ODM's own working pace,
> *after* they've fulfilled our client's requirements.

do you have any rendering or picture of the device you can show?