[Arm-netbook] http://www.vortex86dx.com/?page_id=85

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Robert Schwebel
<r.schwebel at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:33:00PM +0000, luke.leighton wrote:
>> http://www.vortex86dx.com/?page_id=80
>>
>> looks like they've got a 2nd version available that has SATA and HDMI.
>> hooray!  perfect EOMA68 CPU Card!  no 3D GPU but hey you can't have
>> everything: at least it's got PCIe.
>
> According to our previous experiences, Vortex DX is extraordinairy
> crappy. That's the old 486 design on steroids ... uhm ... with a new
> process and more MHz than back in the early 90ies.

 yaay! :)

> Last time we looked,
> it had all kinds of effects, like broken timers, clocks etc.

 ah. question. did you use a board with the internal crystal on the
SoC, or did you do (or use) a design with an external one?

 if "external" then that would be Bad... and i would want to know, for
the DX2 and DX3, that they'd fixed that.

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