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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Hello,
I read the archives of the Tinkerphones (previously OpenPhoenux) community mailing list, and it appears that Nikolaus - the man behind the GTA04 smartphone and influential in the Pyra and Neo900 projects - may end up making the processor module for the Pyra handheld available as a separate item:
http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/community/2016-September/001505.html
cool!
within the appropriate area. And although it would have been great if the EOMA68 profile had been used instead, that might have had implications for its use in the Pyra.
yes.
looking at what's being designed, it's a 200-pin (2x100) SoM with a comprehensive range of pinouts. it's clearly designed to take advantage of the OMAP5 (which is a bitch to get hold of) so making it easier to obtain is a good idea.
what they've done there is trade "comprehensive pinout availability" for "future upgradeability". given that the OMAP5 is still a very good processor, that's not such a bad thing.
l.