On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz <mjuszkiewicz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > W dniu 01.03.2016 o 09:03, Fernando Cassia pisze: > >> I just dont understand why they insist on having everything onboard >> (specially wireless) when usb dongles for wifi and BT can be had for a >> couple of dollars. > > >> Much more interesting, IMHO would be the addition of a SATA port AND USB >> 3.0. > > > They should add USB ports first. Note that all they have is ONE on-the-go > usb controller. Anything you connect to USB share one port bandwidth. HAHA, that costs in terms of IP, space on the silicon and board routing ;-) > Note that BCM8236 (r/pi 2) was same as BCM8235 just newer ARM core was used. > I would not be surprised to see BCM8237 to be repeat + some SPI bus for that > wifi/bt chip. To quote from the press release "For Raspberry Pi 3, Broadcom have supported us with a new SoC, BCM2837. This retains the same basic architecture as its predecessors BCM2835 and BCM2836, so all those projects and tutorials which rely on the precise details of the Raspberry Pi hardware will continue to work" ... on the plus side (and I'm not sure this is) it should make the kernel patches to support it tiny. And for the wifi/BT chip if you google BCM43438 you'll see it's SDIO and I suspect if you look at all the BCM283x SoCs there's a spare MMC/SDIO interface hanging around somewhere. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
