[Arm-netbook] microdesktop v1.7 arrived, works fine... but...

[David Boddie]

On Thu Apr 6 06:12:16 BST 2017, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> ... it's too much: it's too risky... and i'm getting fed up. so.
> what i'm going to do instead is: cut the NAND IC entirely, then wire
> SDC2 (which is the same pins as the NAND) to the *ON-BOARD* Micro-SD
> card slot, instead.
> 
> what that will give is *two* bootable Micro-SD card options, priority
> being first the external one (MMC0) and second the on-board one
> (MMC2).

I can't comment on the technical issues but I think this is an improvement in
terms of usability, at least from my experience using other systems that
relied on booting from Micro-SD instead of from NAND flash.

David