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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:38 PM, mike.valk at gmail.com
<mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2014-05-23 22:57 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
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>>  btw, joe... you'll like this i am sure, but it is a bit of a risk.
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>>  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.
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>>  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).
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> Since we going for interoperability USB makes more sense indeed. USB1,2,3 is
> somewhat backward compatible, interoperable and is seems the better choice.

 yes.  read the EOMA68 spec.  the section on USB is based on exactly
this premise... and explicitly bans SoCs such as some of the TI ones
which implement 480mbit/sec high-speed *only* on the USB2.  if such
SoCs were to be used they would need to be firewalled behind a USB2
Hub IC that could do the down-level (to USB1.1 and 1.0) protocol
conversion.

> Can we get away with a USB2 only on a USB3 connector?

 of course.