[Arm-netbook] The future of EOMA-68

[Paul Boddie]

On Tuesday 5. May 2015 10.54.30 Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On 05/02/15 08:51, gacuest at gmail.com wrote:
> > I have seen that are developing several EOMA-68, but all have very
> > little power or are old (like A20, JZ4775 or IC1T). This makes
> > that many people that are looking for powerful hardware is left out of
> > the EOMA-68 market.
> > 
> > What is the future of EOMA-68? Any EOMA-68 with a powerful hardware
> > (like Tegra X1 or Intel Bay-Trail)?
> 
> this is NOT a troll

Careful! That's how they usually start. ;-)

> i think it was sometime in 2011 that the eoma-68 concept was defined.
> 
> i do realise that luke and others have put a lot of effort into this but
> it has been a very long time and i still can't buy anything
> 
> is it not time to reevaluate the project, its goals and objectives?

Well, I wrote up a summary of the history in an article that you can read 
here:

http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=933

I'm sure you know most of it, but I felt that it was necessary for me to 
remind myself of what had been going on most of this time, and at what point 
different things had happened. I haven't been interacting with this list - 
only reading it - for most of the project's history, so it was easy for me to 
think that progress had been limited.

In fact, quite a bit has happened, but there have obviously been setbacks, 
mostly to do with the choices made in getting hardware into people's hands. 
Had different choices been made in, say, 2013 then a broader audience might 
have had something to use by now, but it seems that a strategy was followed 
that might have seemed the best and fastest route to market at the time, but 
which in hindsight proved to be a dead end.

The one thing that I wanted to emphasise in that article is that hardware has 
been produced, which means that the hard part should be out of the way. But I 
guess only Luke knows the status of the crowd-funding campaign and the "last 
mile".

Paul