On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Vincent Legoll vincent.legoll@gmail.com wrote:
The EOMA68 standard has no provision for ethernet, but AFAIU the other end of the CPU card can be more or less free to use.
yyep
That may be a good way to tackle SoC-specific functionalities, without wasting them... An easy way to be even-more-earth-friendly... Think about going the extra mile, or squeezing every last bit out of it...
Using the extra SoC specific functionalities might not necessarily be more earth friendly. Since your next computer card might not offer the same user facing interfaces that your old one did. The great thing about EOMA68 is that none of the functionality on the pinout end is optional. This means that all future computer cards will be compatible with all your existing enclosures, and vice versa, if you want to upgrade your enclosure you don't have to worry about it being incompatible with your existing computer card.
This really cuts down on waste, since there's no risk of buying incompatible hardware, and you only have to upgrade the piece that is broken or outdated.
If you rely on the user facing end for ethernet or HDMI or whatever, you can lock yourself into a situation where you can't upgrade your card or can't re-use your peripherals.
So would it be possible to link a future SoC w/ ethernet to the HDMI HEC pins and get at least a 100Mbps ethernet, without needing any USB dongle.
yep! i wonder if there's ethernet already on the A20.
Ah that would be extra-extra nice, but no cigar ;-)
The H3 has one (even with an integrated 100Mbps PHY), that would be nice...
-- Vincent Legoll
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