http://bugs.rhombus-tech.net/index_by_target.html
i'm keeping a record of the amounts in and out. thinkpenguin (my sponsor) is handling the money... which if you've been following (running) the assess_campaign.py program is pretty much gone / accounted for. there are a number of reasons why the amounts are being published, not least is so that people can see exactly where the money's going, but also to ensure that it is absolutely clear that this is *NOT* being run as a "profit maximising business". over the past five years i've put at least $40,000 of my own personal funds into this; over the past two years thinkpenguin has sponsored the project with a further $60,000 approximately (so far).
one of the other reasons for making this clear statement on-list is because now that there exists a wikipedia page, we're getting well-meaning people try and contribute to it, and, so far, there's a 100% track record of the contributions being factually incorrect, misleading and just plain wrong. that's led to me having to step in to correct them, which has led to a request that i make a (false) declaration that there exists a "conflict" between the two roles {wikipedia editor | guardian and editor} of the EOMA68 open Creative Commons Licensed {wikipedia page | Standard} on the wikimedia site {wikipedia.org | elinux.org}. it's yet to be demonstrated that such a "conflict" exists. i absolutely flat-out refuse to make a publicly auditable FALSE declaration that a conflict exists when it does not: that brings both the EOMA68 standard *and* wikipedia into disrepute.
interesting situation - one that wikipedia's clearly never had to deal with before.
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/
the DDR3 RAM address line that needed to be added has been done... it's extremely tight and has been quite disruptive. i'll need to do some close inspection of what the auto-router's altered during the many push-and-shove events required to make room for the extra address line. the problem is that if it wasn't planned for, the available space is used up for VIAs and components that literally makes it impossible to get the extra track into the available space without considerable knock-on modifications.
at the time that the original A10 board was done, we actually didn't *know* if it was possible to do 4x DDR3x8 2GB RAM layout: it was only tom cubie's team who discovered the extra address line and used it with the Cubietruck.
l.
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On Monday 5. September 2016 18.51.21 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
http://bugs.rhombus-tech.net/index_by_target.html
i'm keeping a record of the amounts in and out. thinkpenguin (my sponsor) is handling the money... which if you've been following (running) the assess_campaign.py program is pretty much gone / accounted for. there are a number of reasons why the amounts are being published, not least is so that people can see exactly where the money's going, but also to ensure that it is absolutely clear that this is *NOT* being run as a "profit maximising business". over the past five years i've put at least $40,000 of my own personal funds into this; over the past two years thinkpenguin has sponsored the project with a further $60,000 approximately (so far).
I think I am not alone in thanking you for remaining so committed to this work and for ThinkPenguin in seeing the value in it, too. And the above issue page is very interesting to see as well.
[Wikipedia correctness and authoritative edits]
interesting situation - one that wikipedia's clearly never had to deal with before.
Rather than spend a paragraph or two talking about that, I suggest that we just build more robust external sources that the Wikipedia page can make use of. Personally, I'm not a Wikipedia person, but I can possibly spend a little more time looking at the page. (My previous edits were mostly about fixing up citations, of which more are needed as the page stands.)
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/
the DDR3 RAM address line that needed to be added has been done...
Good to know!
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at the time that the original A10 board was done, we actually didn't *know* if it was possible to do 4x DDR3x8 2GB RAM layout: it was only tom cubie's team who discovered the extra address line and used it with the Cubietruck.
A nice demonstration that sharing such knowledge benefits others. ;-)
Paul
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
at the time that the original A10 board was done, we actually didn't *know* if it was possible to do 4x DDR3x8 2GB RAM layout: it was only tom cubie's team who discovered the extra address line and used it with the Cubietruck.
A nice demonstration that sharing such knowledge benefits others. ;-)
.... *click*... oh yeah, good point! err, thank you for noticing and pointing it out: i've been so busy (and so assuming that schematics would be available "automatically") that it never occurred to me that this isn't "normal" in the electronics industry.
ha. frickin funny.
l.
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