[Arm-netbook] IC3128 1280x800 60fps confirmed

[Nico Rikken]

If that cpu card would imply endorsement by the FSF I would assume it
would be of value to the product and the campaign. Having suggested the
current proposal to some friends the response was that for them to buy a
board of relatively low performance, it would at least have to be
supporting free software. The argument of buying into freedom with
EOMA68 doesn't seem to cut it. Maybe others have got similar responses?

Is there any idea when the campaign will launch? I was considering
contacting all website where the Improve, Spark Tablet or Vivaldi tablet
were featured (Liliputing, Phoronix, Slashdot, Jupiter Broadcasting)
since it would be a great follow-up on this previous story. Also for the
updated story on e-waste tying into Phoneblocks or Fairphone and for
similarly It could be positioned as the low-cost alternative to the
Novena laptop, as I heard some complaints about the price during a
conference.

Maybe putting up a community-marketing page for coordination would be a
great way to make sure all mayor news outlets are target for the
campaign.

Can't wait.
Nico

On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 02:24 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 2:01 AM, jean-michel voicechat_fan
> <jean.michel.78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         thanks a lot for the info a tweet will be nice i think
> 
> 
>  ICubeCorp have asked to keep a little bit below the publicity radar
> for now as they are busy dealing with clients on whom they are
> dependent to prove that their *entirely new* instruction set is viable
> commercially.
>  
> 
>  the only reason that  they are talking to me is because i am one of
> the few people who willl a) not be a drain on their available
> resources b) knows the software libre ropes c) can work things out and
> bugfix and help them out occasionally.
> 
> 
>  to make it clear: the last thing they want is for lots of
> inexperienced people to be contactting them at this very moment so a
> tweet would really not be a good idea.
> 
> 
>  anyway:  i have one final thing to sort out, it's the LAN9512 which i
> slightly messed up, if i can show that there is a chance it can be
> corrected then i can add ithe EOMA68-IC3128 cpu card to the
> crowdfunding campaign.  however i may just have to simply redo that
> circuit and find another $1600 from somewhere to get another run of
> samples done.  i am reviewing beagleboard-xm and other circuits which
> use the LAN9512 to see what i can do.
> 
> l.
> 
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