On Thursday 5. January 2017 22.30.42 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Alain Williams addw@phcomp.co.uk wrote:
About 30 seconds in on the BBC video you get a quick view of the hole.
ah! that looks very much like Mini PCIe. which has USB and a one-lane PCIe on it, a few GPIOs and I2C. 50 pin. if that's what they've picked it's not a bad choice.
Mini-PCIe rang a bell, and then I suddenly remembered the following unrelated product from before the Christmas vacation:
http://globalscaletechnologies.com/p-72-marvell-espressobin.aspx
I actually found it via here, originally:
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Marvell/ESPRESSOBin
Which may mean that some of the Debian-on-ARM people are familiar with it. The Mini-PCIe connection is that this board actually supports that interface along with SATA and multiple network ports, which is pretty unusual for a low-cost single board computer.
What might be more interesting in the context of EOMA68 or related standards is the SoC, the Armada 3700:
https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/main/wiki/Armada-3700
Despite very odd usage of the word "proprietary" on that page, it appears that the documentation and software is pretty transparent, although I haven't dug into any of this myself.
Sorry if this is tangential or got mentioned before!
Paul