+++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2016-02-02 20:10 +0000]:
Thing is, that project is stalled because a) Andy is working on both another project and deisgning/building a new house and b) they have failed to get AMD to commit to chip supply. So currently your design is looking a lot more like it might actually happen than theirs.
*sigh* yeahh, it's quite likely that AMD hasn't actually got *anyone* who's committed to it...
Softiron is selling hardware based on the AMD seattle, http://softiron.co.uk/products/ and there are 96board husky prototypes which I expect to be actually available as a board 'RSN'. So they have at least one real customer.
which is precisely why they should give them some ICs due to the extremely high strategic value (debian developers for goodness sake!!)... but can you get that across to AMD's marketing and Directors? mmm...
They did indeed agree in priciple but it neve actually happenned. There was much ructions at ADM last year I think. They had more important things to worry about.
Good to see you at the weekend, and have a 'heft' of the machine.
yeah you too - it's been a bit weird focussing so heavily on this stuff for such a long time.
1.1kg - it's peanuts. i'm kinda confused as to why 15.6in laptops are 2.3kg and above.
More performance, bigger batteries, fans, heatsinks, ABS cases, metal frame in decent ones (the PItop shows how much heavier an ABS injection-moulded case is - A brick in comparison). Yours feels too light to be very robust, but I guess we'll see. The lightness helps itself to some degree, in the way of insects being unaffected by falls.
I'm used to a solid lenovo X-series...
It was nice :-) I feel inspired to update my eoma card and print some parts...
awesome. well, the rev 1.1 card that you have should work with a bit of modification - there's a couple of jumper leads you need to run, i've modded one here - you'll only be able to run the LCD at 100% brightness unless you compile up a software-PCM linux kernel module and do a few other tricks.... just running 3.3v to the pin that's now allocated as "PWM0" is the easiest temporary solution.
I had a quick look but failed to find details of the screen, keyboard, boards and 3D parts online, other than scattered through many mailing list-messages. Never mind info like the above. Is there a page that actually has the info someone keen would need to get started?
but, it would only be needed for a few months: i need to do another production run (rev 2.5) of the EOMA68-A20 PCB so there are more on the way. ethernet is going, so you need to be prepared for that, and have a USB-ETH dongle kicking around.
Boo. But yes OK, that's do-able.
What I really want is either an A64 EOMA68 board, or a baseboard that'll take the pine64...(as discussed, subject to heat limits). Still, that's all 'just hardware' (ha ha).
Wookey