[Arm-netbook] A few questions,

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hiya zap welcome to the list: thanks for agreeing to post this publicly.


On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:33 PM, zap <calmstorm at openmailbox.org> wrote:
> Correct me if i am wrong, but you said in your latest update that 4
> gigabytes of ram may be a possibility in the future yes?

 on the RK3288 board only, yes.  most ARM SoCs are hard-limited to a
maximum of 2GB external DDR addressing: the RK3288 is literally the
only one i've found so far that can even do 4GB.  reason: it was
designed as a medium-level chromebook processor.

 to clarify and make absolutely clear: you will NEVER get an A20 SoC
with above 2GB of RAM.

> The other question though I wondered was it says on some of your
> delivery dates march or something like that,
>
> I just wondered how long it takes from the time I order for the day it
> would arrive,

 i honestly cannot say.  i did the best i could estimate however
within even just a couple of weeks of the campaign ending i reached
out to an associate to confirm the previous arrangement of staying in
taiwan to help him out (and save costs)... and his arrangements had
changed.

 so really, best thing: keep an eye on the updates, and just go with it :)

> also, when exactly is the printed for you, instructions/videos coming out of curiosity?

 when i'm making up the 12-or-so for the individuals that pledged for
fully-assembled ones.  in other words i have 12 opportunities to make
the videos :)

 however as this is a libre project, i already started some basic
instructions if you want to get stuck in early - just bear in mind i
need to bring the CAD python source up-to-date relative to the current
PCB changes.  so you'll be printing stuff out that will *not* fit the
current PCBs and components okay?  however you will not need to throw
all of the parts out, just re-print a few of them.

 https://www.youmagine.com/designs/libre-hardware-licensed-parametric-laptop-design

> for the record I didn´t know you had a mailing list for the longest time.

 i would say "it's right there on the page" but i actually had to
search for it myself (and it's a looong page).  yeah this is a
long-running project.

l.