[Arm-netbook] IC3128 1280x800 60fps confirmed

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Nico Rikken <nico at nicorikken.eu> wrote:

> If that cpu card would imply endorsement by the FSF I would assume it
> would be of value to the product and the campaign.

 noow you're getting it.

> Having suggested the
> current proposal to some friends the response was that for them to buy a
> board of relatively low performance, it would at least have to be
> supporting free software.

 well, a) the IC3128 has a compiler (i have the source now), android
ported (i have the source now) and a qemu emulator (still waiting for
the source on that) and *that's it*.  so if you want anything else you
are *literally* going to have to compile it from scratch. but b) the
other one that's FSF-Endorseable is the ingenic JZ4775 card, and that
_does_ have full GNU/Linux OSes including of course debian
pre-compiled.

unfortunately however the current contract is finished so unless
someone comes forward with the money to pay to have a prototype made
up of the JZ4775 CPU Card it will remain unavailable.

> The argument of buying into freedom with
> EOMA68 doesn't seem to cut it. Maybe others have got similar responses?
>
> Is there any idea when the campaign will launch?

 when the things on the TODO list are completed.  these include:

 * completing the video (going to have another attempt today)
 * completing the initial list of rewards
 * waiting for the prototypers to complete the first wooden case



> I was considering
> contacting all website where the Improve, Spark Tablet or Vivaldi tablet
> were featured (Liliputing, Phoronix, Slashdot, Jupiter Broadcasting)
> since it would be a great follow-up on this previous story. Also for the
> updated story on e-waste tying into Phoneblocks or Fairphone and for
> similarly It could be positioned as the low-cost alternative to the
> Novena laptop, as I heard some complaints about the price during a
> conference.

 yeah the novena has a lot of features including extremely high-end
screen and an industrial-grade processor, and it's being made in small
quantities.  although people may believe the price is high it actually
really isn't.

 i want to wait until the pi-top is available and its CAD/CAM files
released, then we make a modified version that takes an EOMA68 CPU
Card.

> Maybe putting up a community-marketing page for coordination would be a
> great way to make sure all mayor news outlets are target for the
> campaign.

 good idea!  do you want to start that?  i created a blank page
 http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/micro_desktop/marketing/

 hang on have to talk to phil as it's saying "do not have permission
to access....

> Can't wait.
> Nico
>
> On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 02:24 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 2:01 AM, jean-michel voicechat_fan
>> <jean.michel.78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         thanks a lot for the info a tweet will be nice i think
>>
>>
>>  ICubeCorp have asked to keep a little bit below the publicity radar
>> for now as they are busy dealing with clients on whom they are
>> dependent to prove that their *entirely new* instruction set is viable
>> commercially.
>>
>>
>>  the only reason that  they are talking to me is because i am one of
>> the few people who willl a) not be a drain on their available
>> resources b) knows the software libre ropes c) can work things out and
>> bugfix and help them out occasionally.
>>
>>
>>  to make it clear: the last thing they want is for lots of
>> inexperienced people to be contactting them at this very moment so a
>> tweet would really not be a good idea.
>>
>>
>>  anyway:  i have one final thing to sort out, it's the LAN9512 which i
>> slightly messed up, if i can show that there is a chance it can be
>> corrected then i can add ithe EOMA68-IC3128 cpu card to the
>> crowdfunding campaign.  however i may just have to simply redo that
>> circuit and find another $1600 from somewhere to get another run of
>> samples done.  i am reviewing beagleboard-xm and other circuits which
>> use the LAN9512 to see what i can do.
>>
>> l.
>>
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