[Arm-netbook] Is the A31 not suitable?

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss at mtu.edu> wrote:
> luke.leighton <luke.leighton <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> it's not yet been possible to
>> find a suitable FOSS-friendly non-expensive easily-accessible
>> quad-core SoC that fits the general-purpose requirements of EOMA68
>
> Luke,
> Does this rule out the A31 as well?  Was it a power envelope issue, or the
> reworking of traces?  Ongoing trouble with GPL compliance?  I had expected
> to see a version 2 with the A31, after your A20 card did well.

 we were originally quoted £20,000 by wits-tech to get the A31 CPU
card - which i 99% laid out - completely redone.  we're not prepared
to spend that kind of money on something which uses PowerVR - a GPU
which is *known* to be unstable.

 the layout of the A31 CPU card has been 99% done for nearly 5 months
now.  we are not however going to "actively push" it.  if anyone wants
to invest in getting it done, we'll get it done.  if anyone can think
of a way to get it done, we'll get it done.


> On the topic of doing well:  Ethernet, SATA work.

 and RGB/TTL, so we're good to go.

>  Can you make any
> forward-looking statements to when you might do another run of EOMA68 cards?

 the next run will be minimum 1k units, non-FCC and non-CE compliant
and again sold with no warranty, however it will be done on a
fully-automated assembly line [so no crack-head mis-soldered
connectors for example].

 we _do_ however need a written committment for a follow-up order
within 6-8 weeks of MOQ 10k otherwise the T&R components bought for
that tiny 1k run (many of which will be 2500 MOQ reels) will simply be
thrown away, and thus that min 1k batch will have to have the cost of
those discarded components added on.

 from the preorders page however i'm pretty confident that it should
be possible to make that minimum 1k batch at _least_ be 1500 units.

>  Do I have to wait until it shows up on the shelves of my local hypermart?

 naah :)

> Derek
>
>
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