[Arm-netbook] eoma68 a20 card production

zap calmstorm at posteo.de
Fri Jun 21 19:47:17 BST 2019


> I was annoyed with Allwinner and deleted the design I was working on. Also,
> I think they restricted the RGBTTL output to 1280x800 and EOMA68 requires
> 1366x768 minimum.
>
> After using a superb LCD driver under Mr Ding's design direction the other
> Business Units started to license some shoddy LCD driver that restricted
> the framebuffer to 1MByte in size.
>
> Any product that went beyond that *also licensed PowerVR* and there's no
> way in hell I'm doing a Card with a PowerVR GPU.
>
> All that having been said, it turns out yet again that it is Allwinner
> Marketing Dept lying and incompetence that shoots themselves in the foot.
>
> They started lying about the A20 a few years back, saying it is only
> capable of 1024x768 because otherwise it made other offerings, more
> "advanced", on the same marketing page, look bad.
>
> http://linux-sunxi.org/A64 says the A64 can do up to 1920x1080p60 on the
> RGBTTL interface.
>
> Sigh.
So then, is there any 64 bit arm processor you think you could achieve 
this with? I mean one that is not allwinner
>
>
>> That aside, I wish you the best and hope you will succeed!  I am very
>> hopeful you will. Same with the libre risc-v processor. We need one of
>> those for the future.
>>
>> Quad core with 2.4 ghz/5glops + under 2.5 watts would be sick man. I hope
>> as you learn more about how to do that stuff it will be achieveable. :)
>
> :)
>
Glad to be able to lift your spirits. :)
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