--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Russell Hyer russell.hyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys, Hi gals
I still have yet to purchase a pre-ordered kit, but I'll do so before your campaign runs down.
awesome, thanks russell
Obviously, I understand this is early days, and your current kit so far as I understand doesn't include USB3 and potentially doesn't include enough voltage for what I would consider a cool use of the tech;
it's covered in the q/a on the questions... hang on, i had to cut the official one quite short, the longer explanation is on here http://rhombus-tech.net/crowdsupply/ search for "SATA"
though, like I say, it might not be technically possible up front. So, you may have seen displaylink monitors
yeah back in 2010 or so i helped bernie out with testing a UD-160A and one of the 7in 800x600 USB-powered monitors to get it working with ARM, there was a little-endian byte-swapped issue in the linux kernel driver, bernie fixed that.
(of course, I'm not quite sure of the libre-ness of these monitors,
fully GPLv2 compliant (at least the UD-160A and the 7in USB-powered monitor is)
but I use one on my Mac Mini and it does provide a neat way of lugging around a 17 inch monitor without the drag of anything other than a USB 3 cable).
... i did 4 screens on a mac laptop by adding one via a UD-160A... :)
In theory these also support GNU/Linux devices as well.
in *reality* i *know* that the USB2 ones work perfectly.
(But I haven't yet bought a USB 3 card for my libre IBM to test this out in reality).
i've not bought a USB3 one, i don't trust USB3 yet. heard about all the problems.... and now i am testing out TP150 802.11n WIFI dongles with the EOMA68-A20, guess what's happening? grrr.... https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/2016-July/014729.html
But, whilst I would still want to support your computer system at this stage, as regards daily, repeated usage in the earliest stages, I feel supporting that type of hardware may be required and would allow the net top version of the device to become more laptop-esque.)
yeahyeah - no i get it: tested already back in 2010, on a beagleboard clone: worked great.
Thanks in advance for answering my question, and thanks again for this great project.
thanks russell.