2014-09-10 10:54 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
this is triggered mainly by the discussion last month from manuel, i had a bit of time to think and i came up with an idea.
if you recall, manuel asked "would it be ok to buy a specific model of CPU card, install an OS that only works with the Games Console?" and the answer was "yes... but you could not call it EOMA68 compliant"
so anyway i thought about this a bit and i figured that it makes a lot of sense to have the OS (which really has nothing to do with the CPU Card per se) basically adjust so that it works with whatever it detects...
... in other words, from an end-user perspective, you would buy a Gaming *Card*, or an Work *Card*, or an Android *Card*, or a Photo/Camera *Card* that would have an OS preinstalled which adapts to the base units it's plugged into.
i'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this.
I think it is best to do EOMA-68 compatible with all devices. Those devices that need special software, which also are compatible with EOMA-68 and with own cards (a renamed EOMA-68).
The other way, you have to define the standard controls for all consoles compatible with the Gaming *Card*.