On 2014-02-11 14:43, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
Well, one of my long time dream is to have an arm based hacker laptop that I have printed (CNC whatever) and designed, and can use with my beloved Fedora - of course when upgrade comes, simply I replace the complete board - and I have new system. Sadly this is only a dream yet. If I would like to have normal-ish multitasking (not so intensive one), that surely requires more than 1 gig ram. I don't have huge needs, just a silent hacked laptop that based on arm and doesn't want to die when I open a Firefox, or bunch of libreoffice docs that I usually travel with, and of course can hack on ARM.
Maybe I'm missing a something, but it sounds very much like what you are after is actually a Chromebook (Samsung or HP, based on Exynos A15). I have one and it does all that and more quite effortlessly.
If I look around most of the allwinner boards are really mixed bag. The iMX boards are good, but not all is usable to be a base a kind of netbook - as very rare to have LVDS connector on board... Other thing is the battery support - eg. I was really surprised about the Cubietruck that has direct LiPo battery support, but they forgot to have the LCD connector support as it has been on the Cubieboard 2.
Sounds like an extremely expensive project. You are probably better off waiting for the EOMA68 project to produce some usable hardware. You then need some contacts to find some left-over laptop chassies from another suitable machine, and get somebody to design a motherboard that will take an EOMA68 card and simply acts as a break-out board for the EOMA68's functionality. You would then end up with something you can upgrade by simply replacing the EOMA card (PCMCIA form factor) when a better EOMA card is available without rebuilding the whole laptop around a completely different motherboard. Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
