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On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Dima Krasner dima@dimakrasner.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm Dima (more info about me at dimakrasner.com) and I'm new here, so ... hi.
hii dima, nice to meet you.
For years I've been following the ARM scene, since I'm very interested in libre hardware projects.
cool
Chinese ARM netbooks with WonerMedia chips (8850, 8880, etc') are very common in sites like AliExpress and Ebay and they're pretty darn cheap. Performance, RAM amount limit and decoder performance should be reasonable, compared to other cheap ARM boards.
I see the WM8950 has been evaluated, but the wiki doesn't say what's wrong with it. As far as I can tell it's yet another Mali-400 board.
the issue is: we have no idea to contact to get a Reference Design from.
Although I understand while the A20 is preferred to WonderMedia chips (it makes life easier on the software front, probably more than any other non-x86 SoC), I wonder, what makes them unacceptable in RYF hardware? Is there any technical issue that I've missed?
they're most likely acceptable... but if you can't even get a datasheet let alone an example design with the DDR RAM already laid out, it's something like a $40k risky investment of a *lot* of time (multiple revisions) to get it done.
and i just haven't got time.
if you happen to *know* where to get hold of a full Reference Design of something with a quad-core especially an arm64 WM SoC that's in 28nm or below, then i'm definitely interested.
l.