[Arm-netbook] HDMI HEC on future boards

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Adam Van Ymeren <adam.vany at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using the extra SoC specific functionalities might not necessarily be
> more earth friendly.  Since your next computer card might not offer
> the same user facing interfaces that your old one did.  The great

 d'yknow... this never occurred to me before.  i always sort-of
thought it would just be cool (and sensible) to have card-specific
extensions / purposes (such as built-in 3G with an antenna sticking
out the card end) - it just never occurred to me (it definitely should
have) that that would result in potential "lock-in".

 i always thought, y'know, things like HDMI would be ubiquitous /
common enough that you would always be able to find an upgraded
computer card with USB-OTG and HDMI: the impact of specialisation at
the *user-facing* end never hit my tiny brain :) huh.
l.