[Arm-netbook] Improv And Operation:Marketing for EMOA-*

[Miguel Garcia]

2014-05-23 22:57 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
>  the inclusion of SATA on EOMA68, it is cutting us off from a ton of
> CPUs that are coming out for the tablet,tablet,tablet,tablet market -
> the $12 rk3188 for example, which would otherwise be perfect.
>
>  so i am inclined, especially because i anticipate USB3 SoCs coming
> along over the next 8-9 years, to replace SATA with USB2 and 2 other
> lines.  i think, joe, that one of them should be the "TTL high Power
> Line" for the voltage levels on GPIO (and UART).
>

I think it's a good idea.

EOMA-68 should be compatible with most SoCs. If SATA prevents EOMA is
compatible with most SoCs, I think it is better to delete SATA.

I guess the idea is to change SATA for (another) USB 2.0. Thus,
EOMA-68 would have a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0. I think this is a good
idea, since all devices (tablets, phones, portable game devices...)
use several USBs, but only very few devices use SATA.