[Arm-netbook] Game Console OS

[Miguel Garcia]

2014-08-13 12:16 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
> i think, really, 2c is the most practical / realistic way.  allow
> people to select and install complete OSes, provide a base mechanism
> to do that.

Yes, option 2c is the best.

You sell the card with a generic OS. When you connect the EOMA-68 to
the console, this EOMA-68 reads a code in the EEPROM and the EOMA-68
searches a specific OS on the Internet for that code. Then download
this secondary OS. Then you can choose between generic OS or secondary
OS every time you turn on the console.

Also, if you change the EOMA-68 to another device, this card should
read the EEPROM code and if the code is not the same, it will be
impossible to run the secondary OS that was installed (to avoid
errors/incompatibilities).