--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On Wednesday 29. June 2016 20.35.04 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
the page is now live, and runs till the 26th august. please do help push that out to as many people as you can, blog about it, etc. we have thinkpenguin writing about it, liliputing is doing an article, i'll create a slashdot article, i'll be in touch with wired later today and so on.
Congratulations on getting this far!
thanks paul
I like the fact that the computer cards are providing 2GB RAM and are thus competitive with various other solutions...
https://wiki.debian.org/CheapServerBoxHardware
(I would add the EOMA68-A20 card to the list on that page, in combination with the Micro-Desktop, but I guess the SATA/Ethernet requirement rules it out for the time being: it's a list related to FreedomBox, after all. Maybe a future device would manage to get onto such a list, but such lists are obviously not the final word on whether an EOMA68-based solution would be usable for that particular application.)
it's a pity that they classify USB-ETH as "toys" directly on that list. at some point i'll see a gigabit router done, it'll need to use MII bit-banging to manage the IC, and one of the ports will need to be connected via USB-ETH to the EOMA68 card, but it'll do the job.
I'm inclined to pledge for the Micro-Desktop and EOMA68-A20, but I'd be very interested in getting other cards as well, if the ones that were planned (jz4775, IC1T) made it onto the bill. The possibility of experimenting with different architectures, having a common platform in which to do it, is a considerable strength of the EOMA68 concept.
the ic1t i haven't heard back from them in a while, but the jz4775 looks achievable - i just have to find time to sort out the boot process.
Good luck with reaching the target!
Paul
P.S. Links for newer readers:
http://rhombus-tech.net/ingenic/jz4775/ http://rhombus-tech.net/icubecorp/IC1T/
appreciated. btw there's a discussion going on on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/4qhm1y/earthfriendly_eoma68_c...