On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Jonathan Frederickson silverskullpsu@gmail.com wrote:
As much as I would love to help, I don't have the low-level Linux experience for it to be worth sending me any hardware. That said, I'd love to learn - if anyone knows, what hardware already out there is closest to what the A20 card will have? One of the A20 Cubieboards maybe?
the cubietruck's about the closest if you can get it - reason is: the price of 96FBGA DDR3x16 RAM ICs @ 8 gigabit are INSANE ($USD 10 **EACH**) and in the 2x DDR3x16 configuration you'd need *$20* worth of RAM with your $4 processor to get 2GBYTES.
so instead the cubietruck went with the 4x DDR3x8 78FGBA RAM ICs, which are a mere $3 each, and you get the 2GB of RAM that way, as 4x DDR3x8 4 gigabit ICs.
this is the configuration that i copied for the EOMA68-A20, by looking at the schematic and copying the addition of the (undocumentded) 15th address line. it was a hell of a risk ($2,000) but it worked: that's what the 2.4.1 announcement was about, back in december 2016.
anyway so yes: cubietruck is the closest you'll get to an EOMA68-A20, if you can get hold of them.
l.