On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Jeremy Wykes jeremy.wykes@gmail.com wrote:
I'm working on a draft that I'll post soon~ish. I'm stuck on "Why". why as in why why not how,what but why sort of why :) are you doing this?
I can offer this perspective as to why EOMA68 is attractive. To design a device based on a modern full featured SoC/CPU that is capable of running a desktop level OS requires designing a PCB with high speed signalling for the RAM etc. This is a non-trivial task that is beyond most people without specific engineering expertise, and expensive software tools. A modular CPU card like EOMA68 has all the high speed stuff taken care of, and can be dropped into a PCB with a PCMCIA socket that even an advanced hobbyist can design, get manufactured and then populate by hand soldering. As far as I know, there has not really been anything like this in the past.
... and certainly not on a scale that's planned and designed for mass-volume, and certainly not in a long-term upgradeable form-factor.
Making custom or prototype devices with modern CPUs is now accessible to a far wider range of individuals and companies than before, and those devices will be upgradeable as more EOMA68 cards appear.
exactly. it's quite a comprehensive story/strategy, one that ultimately has a simple reason for each participant in that story/strategy (which all the other participants don't really need to know).
and it is dependent on getting some sales in as it is at a critical time-dependent phase of the project.
l.