[Arm-netbook] defining the eoma68 eeprom usage

[luke.leighton]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, November 4, 2013 10:56:20 luke.leighton wrote:
>> > this will depend on the device. for an engineering board, you almost
>> > certainly want this ability.
>>
>>  yes.  engineering boards would not be classed as "mass-volume
>> end-user" boards.
>
> raspberry pi has sold 1.75+ million units so far. people are putting them into
> products like POS terminals (saw a crowd funding campaign for such a thing the
> other week).

 1.75 million is still one to two orders of magnitude below what
EOMA68 is designed for.  the considerations are completely different
inasmuch as they *encompass* what the rbpi is attempting to do.

 anyway - i think later messages cover the gist of this, in a more
compact form (number "c") so i'll leave it at that.

l.