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On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Wookey wookey@wookware.org wrote:
+++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2016-01-26 09:50 +0000]:
wookey do you know if anyone from the arm64 vero team are going to be in brussels? it would be nice to be able to say "hello this is a low-power laptop blah blah... and if you want a higher-end one you want to talk to _these_ people right here..." - i'll ask the powerpc-laptop people as well
Sorry - didn't see this message in time. The main drivers (Andy Simpkins, Steve McIntyre and Daniel Silverstone) were all not there this year. Leif Lindholm was present.
if you speak to them please do mention that the casework's there for them to adapt. i honestly doubt very much that they will be able to source the required connectors that will be the right height. laptops are designed PCB+case+connectors - many connectors are *custom-made* so that they fit exactly at the right height (mid-mounted), and the tooling is often scrapped when the laptop itself is end-of-life.
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... 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...
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.
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.
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.
l.