[Arm-netbook] The A64-OLinuXino laptop idea

[joem]

On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 18:03 +0100, Paul Boddie wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I see that Luke's friends/rivals at Olimex are considering the idea of a 
> laptop based on their "64-bit" development board:


More on it at
http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/11/10/allwinner-a64-datasheet-and-user-manual-released/

KiCAD design of the schematic is available along with
datasheets.

Reading the datasheet, the device is capable of addressing 3GB RAM,
though I am not sure any performance improvements are gained because
the L1 cache is only 32k :(

With 64 bit words to chew, the cache is only about 4K words.
Down from the 8K words in a 32 bit ARM  :( :( :(

Still, the graphics ought to be quicker with the hardware present
in the chip and ability to move data in larger chunks.