[Arm-netbook] What I have done so far

[David Boddie]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:30:26 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: 

> But in the end, for the campaign to be successful, it also needs to
> provide products that people want to pledge for (if nothing else, to
> meet the minimum quantity to fabricate the chips that Luke keeps
> mentioning), so everybody needs some kind of hook to engage with the
> project.  It also serves to gauge interest in future products, once the
> campaign ends.

It's the way things work these days. Nobody will pledge money to support
a standard on its own. As you say, you need a hook, and in this case it's
a set of devices that aim to prove the concept.

> - Close family are still well served by the options already available
>   around the home, e.g. Thinkpads a decade old (still from IBM).

Thinking about this: I wonder if it would be possible to reuse existing
laptop housings by somehow reusing their PCMCIA card slots to house EOMA68
CPU cards. Maybe this has already been discussed somewhere.

David