Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> Unfortunately, I'm not a hardware hacker. But, as a consumer, I'd say that a "1gb NAND Flash" is quite a bit below the level. I also wouldn't care much about a 1280x720 screen if the hardware wouldn't be capable of playing the video flawlessly. Or, if there was an HDMI port to connect to TV, which is, in my taste, better suited for watching. > > yep - all the designs i've worked on, and all the CPUs found (so far) > were selected precisely because of the HDMI output capability. i'd > kinda ruled out the spea1310 because you need an extra IC converting > LCD to DVI/HDMI or even *shudder* a PCI-e graphics IC (volari Z11 god > help us is about the only free-software-compatible option) I was just thinking about that, actually. If you're making a custom mobo, then as long as you can find an ARM SoC tht has PCI-e, you could just apply an MXM module and plug in an ATI or Nvidia GPU for which we already have passably working OSS drivers. Of course, this defeats the purpose of the exercise - who in their right mind would use a 2W CPU with a 30W+ GPU in a laptop? > gordon is right about the SD/MMC card thing, but the "level 10" ones > can at least guarantee above 10mbytes/sec *read* capability. so > _yes_ to the SATA interface. The 10MB/s is _supposed_ to be for worst-case sequential writes. There is, however, no defined benchmark, and manufacturers are free to do their own testing. Most fail any sane real-world measurements of the specification. Just about every SD card I have seen apart from high end Lexar and SanDisk manage a whopping 1-3 4KB write IOPS. Team Class 10 32GB SD card is among those. So the class rating is pretty much completely meaningless for anything except (at most) digital camera use where you are sequentially writing large files to a FAT32 file system. I'm glad we agree on anything other than SATA being unworkable. :) Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
