[Arm-netbook] A point of confusion re: EOMA-68

[Christopher Havel]

Hello all!

I just wanted to try and understand something with EOMA-68 -- just a 
small question that's not explained well on the Wiki page. I had a 
design idea that I wanted to draw up (not much of the actual circuitry 
-- I'm not that good -- but enough so that some electronics engineers 
can "fill in the blanks", if you will, with the circuitry I can't figure 
out), but I've got to get this figured out first.

So I can sort of figure out that external to the CPU Card, there needs 
to be an I2C EEPROM. What I can't quite figure out is the purpose of 
that EEPROM. I'm *guessing* that it's for IDing what the external 
interfaces are on the host board / carrier board (the PCB that the CPU 
Card plugs into) so that the CPU card can turn off what's not needed, 
and provide proper I/O protocols to what is needed -- but that's only a 
guess, because it's extremely unclear on the Wiki page.

Would you folks be able to provide some clarification?

Thanks!

Christopher
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