On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Boris Barbour barbour@biologie.ens.fr wrote:
On 20/05/14 21:16, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
we achieved that 100% debugging and validation phase back in i think it was october of last year.
so we are talking about fully-tested, fully working hardware that is ready to go into larger production runs for clients.
Sorry - I didn't realise it had progressed quite that far.
yes! that's why we entered into an agreement with aaron's company that they would order 2500 units.
It's a crying shame how difficult it is to find arm laptops (also tablets and of course phones) to run debian* without jumping through hoops.
... and with the eoma idea, it's not just solved once and can be inserted into multiple devices and *still* you only had the porting to do just the once, but also the kernel infrastructure needed to support multiple devices actually makes it easier to port to the next CPU card as well.
The chromebooks show that it is entirely possible, but there are always driver problems, you can't install natively, etc. I really like the eoma idea.
Anyway, I'd be a customer of the first products.
... please put your name down on the list at the preorders page, so that when it happens - once i have enough money to get the prototypes done without relying on other people - it's possible to let you know.
l.