On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Miguel Garcia gacuest@gmail.com wrote:
2014-05-23 22:57 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
the inclusion of SATA on EOMA68, it is cutting us off from a ton of CPUs that are coming out for the tablet,tablet,tablet,tablet market - the $12 rk3188 for example, which would otherwise be perfect.
so i am inclined, especially because i anticipate USB3 SoCs coming along over the next 8-9 years, to replace SATA with USB2 and 2 other lines. i think, joe, that one of them should be the "TTL high Power Line" for the voltage levels on GPIO (and UART).
I think it's a good idea.
EOMA-68 should be compatible with most SoCs. If SATA prevents EOMA is compatible with most SoCs, I think it is better to delete SATA.
I guess the idea is to change SATA for (another) USB 2.0. Thus, EOMA-68 would have a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0. I think this is a good idea, since all devices (tablets, phones, portable game devices...) use several USBs, but only very few devices use SATA.
exactly. *sigh* now i have to carefully reroute portions of the CPU Card...