[Arm-netbook] 15in EOMA-68 laptop

[luke.leighton]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<dave at treblig.org> wrote:
> * luke.leighton (luke.leighton at gmail.com) wrote:
>> personally i would make my own laptop out of bits of cardboard and
>> some silver gaffa tape because i think it's such an "in-your-face" way
>> to say that you *don't* have to spend a fortune to get powerful
>> technology in your hands.  hilarious.  a 15in laptop with a 1920x1080
>> LCD, cost of the materials is around $170, it's modular, it's
>> upgradeable, and you built it yourself out of recyclable materials.
>> that's powerful stuff.
>
> What's the upper limit of the display res?

 beyond 1920x1080 and i'd be starting to get a little concerned about
the capability of some of the low-end SoCs to cope.  TI's SoCs are
supposed to be able to do 2048x2048 @ 30fps no problem.  the S5PC100
and 110 could only do 1024x768!  if you pushed it even to 1366x768 you
started to get all sorts of weird artefacts, and you also lost two
lines on-screen left and right because they only had 1mbyte for the
framebuffer!

 but apart from that: assuming that the SoC can do the resolution,
then if you find the datasheet on the panel we can look at it further.
 remember there has to be a matching IC to convert RGB/TTL to
whatever-input-the-panel-takes.  dual LVDS, triple LVDS, MIPI etc.

l.