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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Miguel Garcia <gacuest at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

 exactly.  *sigh* now i have to carefully reroute portions of the CPU Card...