[Arm-netbook] It arrived in the post just now!

[luke.leighton]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Henrik Nordström
<henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> ons 2013-07-31 klockan 12:29 +0100 skrev luke.leighton:
>> > - The metal is glued to the EOMA68 connector with adhesive tape. When
>> > reaching the EOMA68 connector just gently bend one edge the shield for a
>> > while until the tape looses it's grip.
>>
>>  is it?  gosh.  they did a decent job then.
>
> They did.
>
>> oh wait.. it might just be the lacquer that they spray on the boards.
>
> No.
>
>> hmmm, you (or someone else) might have to take some pictures because i
>> have one of the early ones, it didn't even have the protective sleeve
>> inside.
>
> I have already removed the "glue" tape from mine.
>
>>  question, henrik: did the CPU card have a yellow protective sleeve,
>> top and bottom inside?
>
> Yes. First thing I verified. If not there would have been a big fat
> WARNING (repeat 20 times) in my message.
>
>>  if not, i'm going to be *really* pissed.
>
> Nothing to be pissed over this time :)
>
> Except the design errors of swapping SD controllers,

 yeah i know...

> not having FEL
> externally reachable (the combination of both is quite annoying),

 ok.  right.  there's i think _one_ possible last spare pin on the
68-pin header (i've been thinking of making UART_TX and UART_RX part
of the EOMA-68 spec) - which could potentially be used here to get a
CPU card to go into "bootloader" mode.

 however... that's typically going to be CPU-card-specific.  but... if
you need to boot and install a CPU Card from scratch you *will* know
which one you're dealing with, therefore you'd put the right OS on,
use the right tools etc. etc. and would use the appropriate boot
pinout setup etc. etc.

thoughts?

l.