[Arm-netbook] Just a thought for the 2nd revision of your standard,

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hi zap, minor correction: the EOMA68 *standard* will *not* require (or
undergo) revision in order to support any given processor.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:34 PM zap <calmstorm at posteo.de> wrote:

> https://linux-sunxi.org/A64
>
>
> sunxi cedrus now supports this processor.

 ah that's good.

> I would be estatic to see that
> happen. A64 is a good processor because it is 64 bit, and 32 bit has
> less people interested in it more and more as time passes...
>
> What do you think Luke? Especially given the whole bootlin/cedrus support.

 if there's a better option that goes over 2GB RAM, i'd like to use it instead.


> Seems the Video Engine is available now. Let me know what you think of
> this as a possible Rev2 of eoma68 the standard.

 again, to make absolutely clear: EOMA68 does not and *will* not
undergo *any* revision to support any specific given processor.

 you *may* be referring to the funding and production of a card that
is *COMPLIANT* with the EOMA68 specification, that happens to be
manufactured in a sequence that may be numbered "2nd", where the
EOMA68-A20 could conceivably be numbered "1st".

> ps, I am mainly interested in this because of the possibility of
> wine-staging on it. But yeah, even better it has no issues of
> meltdown/spectre. :)

 yeah appreciated.

 i happened to encounter the RK3308 (i think it was that one) which is
also a Cortex A53, and the RK3326 which can address up to 4GB:
 https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/07/23/rockchip-rk3308-rk3326-datasheet/

the only down-side of the RK3326: only one USB port, it will require
an on-board USB Hub IC to support 2x USB2 for full EOMA68 compliance.

l.