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developer advantages of EOMA68
by Nick Hardiman 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Why are EOMA68 computer cards useful to the current rash of devops guys? When a developer bangs out business-level services, the fine detail of boot loaders, CPU packages, device drivers and power consumption is taken for granted. The dev probably checks the kernel is new, and that’s about it. Or is that unfair? For starters, I’m thinking: You carry your development environment with you. No database sync, no remote cloud access, no leaving a sensitive computer in the organization. It’s not a killer advantage - since BYOD became a thing, this is already happening for a lot of laptop-carrying people. It’s local hardware, not remote virtual machines. It may be a good fit with running containers, which means continuous deployment, configuration management, and all that microservice lifecycle stuff. If you want to get less commercial and more R&D, you could replace Docker with Xen and unikernels. I’m also thinking, basically, any software development that can be done on a Cubietruck, can be done on an EOMA68. Similar specs, similar OS support, and so on. What am I missing?

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Game Console Website
by Alexander .S.T. Ross 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

just came across it http://www.ubrew.it

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EOMA68 now runnning sugar os
by Wolfgang Romey 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

In the latest update of its crowdfunding campaign one can see, that the sugar os is running on the EOMA68-card. This coold be a great chance to get more (new?) life to sugar. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/sugar-os-demo As the card is aimed among other aims for using in education, this is very goog news. Wolfgang

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EOMA68 too slow?
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

On the fsfe-fe mailing list is happening a discussion, in which people say, the A20 has not enough power for serious working with libreoffice or surfing or looking videos. Is it possible, to produce a video, which shows the speed, with which this is possible? Or are their other ways to prove, that this is wrong. Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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your robotic overlord...
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSovHldr9Y this is great - it's a video done by Aban Tech, the voice is a robot but done quite well, i didn't notice until there were spelling mistakes and pronounciation errors :) --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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Future CPU cards
by David Boddie 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

Not wanting to revisit the discussion about the A20 but, instead, think about other processors that might perform better in the comparison table on this page: http://rhombus-tech.net/crowdsupply/ I have no idea if it's even reasonable to discuss these as possible options, so don't all jump on me at once. :-) For example, the i.MX 6UltraLite could be interesting because it doesn't, as far as I can tell, contain a GPU: https://www.nxp.com/iMX6UltraLite I suppose some might think of it as the runt of the i.MX6 litter for that reason. ;-) Some of the other processor families seem to be quite frugal with regards to power consumption, and can still support reasonable display resolutions. I'm thinking of the i.MX507, but perhaps also the i.MX512: https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm- processors/i.mx-applications-processors/i.mx50-processors/multimedia- applications-processors-low-power-optimization-integrated-electronic-paper- display-epd-arm-cortex-a8-core:i.MX507 I have an eReader that uses an i.MX507, so I'm probably a bit biased towards that processor. https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm- processors/i.mx-applications-processors/i.mx51-processors/applications- processors-high-performance-low-power-arm-cortex-a8-core:i.MX512 I realise that these also require support ICs, so perhaps that might make them unattractive. Anyway, something to think about. David

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Polishing keyboard support
by Albert ARIBAUD 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

Hi Luke and all, I am polishing a new push for keyboard, mainly adding support for modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt, GUI) -- this makes the keyboard fully useable under any reasonable OS. While I was at it, I ran a full check on my AZERTY keyboard's layout, and found two keys in its matrix which the EC SW maps to 0x00 ('no key') in the current code. Namely: row 1, column 5: keypad "+" row f, column 4: keyboard "DEL" Keypad "+" is present in the SW matrix, but at row 1, column 1 (which on my keyboard maps to no key). Keyboard "DEL" does not seem to be mapped in the SW matrix. Luke, could you check the QWERTY keyboard matrix position for those two keys? I'd like to make sure whether we can use the same SW matrix for both keyboards or whether we need two. Amicalement, -- Albert.

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EOMA68 cards @ 92.4%
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

that's interesting... i think someone just pledged for a stack of computer cards, maybe 10 or so, can't tell but there's been a big jump from 210 to 231 in the past hour. that puts us at 92.4% of the 250 MOQ which is awesome! l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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Fwd: [Slashdot] Your Slashdot submission is on the front page! New Crowdfunding Campaign Offers Modular EOMA68 Computing Devices
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <slashdot(a)slashdot.org> Date: Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:05 AM Subject: [Slashdot] Your Slashdot submission is on the front page! New Crowdfunding Campaign Offers Modular EOMA68 Computing Devices To: lkcl(a)lkcl.net Congratulations, your Slashdot submission was featured on the front page! Every day we review hundreds of submissions, but we can only post a few to the front page. Thanks again for sharing with the Slashdot community. Your story is here: https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/07/31/0323255/new-crowdfunding-campaign-… To keep the conversation going, don't forget to share the link with your friends. - The Slashdot Team ====================================================================== You have received this message because you subscribed to it on Slashdot. To stop receiving this and other messages from Slashdot, or to add more messages or change your preferences, please go to your user page. https://slashdot.org/prefs/messages You can log in and change your preferences from there. Slashdot 1660 Logan Ave. Ste A San Diego, CA 92113

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In Slashdot now
by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

It seems that somebody reworked the original post: https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/07/31/0323255/new-crowdfunding-campaign-… My initial post to SoylentNews was rejected, resubmitted again with better text to see if it was just a matter of writing/style, or they don't want to link to the campaign. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo(a)gmail.com>

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EOMA68 reddit post
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/4vdn45/eoma68_earthfriendly_… the other reddit links died down (all 12 of them) so i thought i'd start another one, see what happens l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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EOMA-68 laptop firmware: support for NUCLEO F072RB added
by Albert ARIBAUD 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

Hi, I have just pushed support for the NUCLEO F072RB on the eoma firmware repository. You can now build the firmware either for the real PCB2 EC with "make", or for the NUCLEO with "make STM32F072_NUCLEO=1". When built for the NUCLEO, the list of GPIOs used by the firmware is adjusted to the available GPIOs on the NUCLEO. Right now, this means the keyboard matrix uses A13, A14 and A15 instead of A2, A3 (used for UART to the ST-Link) and A5 (used for LED LD2). As a bonus, the user button selects between firmware or DFU on power-up or reset; this removes the need to strap/unstrap the BOOT0 pin. Yes, I'm /that/ lazy. Next on the list: documenting and completing the keyboard matrix (two keys appear missing) and supporting limited AZERTY mode. Amicalement, -- Albert.

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PYRA - Blobs -
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

Hello, I found this on the PYRA-Homepage: Texas Instruments OMAP 5 SoC 2x ARM Cortex-A15 @ 1.5Ghz with NEON SIMD 2x ARM Cortex-M4 PowerVR™ SGX544-MP2 Vivante GC320 2D Accelerator Can anybody tell me which of this Hardware contains proprietary hardware and which of the manufactors are gpl-violaters? Wolfgang Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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Done my duty again
by m016fec3 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

https://loadaverage.org/notice/8343710 https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/5077092 Wolfgang

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eoma68-project
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

The EOMA68-Project, which aims to build a free and ethical laptop has reached 50,000 $ funding, which is 1/3 of its aim. I am surpized, that there is not more support from the Free Software community. I thought Free Hardware (in combination with FRee software) is an urgent need. So please consider, if you can support the project. Paul Boddie has written a blog post why: http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/2016/2016-07-21.ht… -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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EOMA68 another slashdot submission
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

https://slashdot.org/submission/6157963/eoma68-earth-friendly-modular-compu… another submission, this time now that we've crossed the $50 threshold - please do hit "+" on it so that it gets up on the articles for consideration on the front page l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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Re: [Arm-netbook] Auto-discard notification
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

hi leo thanks for letting me know - i would have found out sooner. forwarded your message to the list. appreciate your help. any other ways you can think of where it would work do let me know, there are quite a few people interested. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:11 PM, <arm-netbook-bounces(a)lists.phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > The attached message has been automatically discarded. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Leo Famulari <leo(a)famulari.name> > To: arm-netbook(a)lists.phcomp.co.uk > Cc: > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:11:42 -0400 > Subject: GuixSD / EOMA68 > Hi, I'm writing from GNU Guix [0]. > > We noticed that GuixSD is mentioned as a potential OS for EOMA68 on the > crowd-funding page [1]. > > Several of us are supporters of the EOMA68 campaign. However, GuixSD > (the OS) does not yet run on any ARM architectures. It's a work in > progress and I hope we get there soon. Guix (the package manager) does > run on armv7 on top of another GNU / Linux distro, and we are working on > support for aarch64 / armv8. > > I'd hate for you to waste your time trying to boot GuixSD on EOMA68 > right now. > > [0] > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ > > [1] > https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/more-os-options > >

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Rebuilding official OS images?
by Matt Campbell 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Hi, Are there scripts somewhere for building the official OS images for the A20 card, from official distro package repositories, using debootstrap or the equivalent tool for other distros? I think it's important that the official OS images aren't just cobbled together by one person, with no one else knowing how to do it; in other words, the build process should be documented, reproducible, and ideally, fully automated. Thanks, Matt

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Re: [Arm-netbook] eoma68-project
by David Boddie 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:47:22 +0200, Wolfgang Romey wrote: > Hello DAVID :-) :-) > > Did you mean to send this to the FSFE Discussion list? > > No, I wanted to send it to the libreplanet discussion list. Ah, that's a list I'd forgotten about. > > David, not Paul, in this case. Paul is still taking it easy. :-) > > Sorry. No problem. It happens more than you might realise. You're doing a great job getting the word out, by the way! David

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yaaaa $50,000!
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

woo, we crossed $50,000 yay! --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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EOMA68 arm facebook page
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

https://www.facebook.com/ARMfans/posts/10154370502999588 any chance those of you who use facebook could do the usual "like / share" on this one, it's quite an important one as it's on ARMfans (100,000 users) page? l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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Done my duty :-)
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

I have done my duty again and published about the latest update: https://loadaverage.org/notice/8335967 https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/5071077 Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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Development environment for the A20 card
by David Boddie 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Sorry if this has come up before and I missed it. Is there a recommended software development environment for the A20 card that people can use to experiment with in place of the real thing? I'm thinking of something as basic as a set of configuration options for qemu. I know the Cubieboard or Cubietruck has been mentioned before in the context of whether software will be portable to the card. I just wondered if there's any more concrete information about using virtual environments for those systems in the context of the A20 card. David

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Ethernet with pass-through card
by Stephen Paul Weber 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Does the EOMA spec have ethernet? I forget. Neither housing lists USB ethernet as a thing it has, which seems odd if not (especially for the desktop housing)‎. Having an ethernet port in the bargain would make the pass-through card pretty exciting. ‎ Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

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The Dark Side of EOMA68
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k1NacHnvUc :) --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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