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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:56 PM, GaCuest <gacu...@gmail.com> wrote: > El 15 de noviembre de 2016 a las 17:33:27, Luke Kenneth Casson > Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) escribió: >> honestly that's something i'm going to have to leave for someone else >> to investigate / answer, i've been non-stop for about 6 days on the >> PCB layout, it's one of the trickiest i've ever done as the 4 DDR3x16 >> RAM ICs are all on the TOP layer, leaving an absolutely ridiculously >> small amount of space left for routing, and i'm having to make some >> rather creative decisions on where to place some of the discrete >> components. >> >> it's extremely taxing, very intensive, so i'm trusting that other >> people will answer software-related questions. >> > > Ok, thanks, and good luck! > > The RK3288 seems very interesting if all the components if supported > under GNU/Linux (at least with proprietary drivers). > > On the other hand, have you calculated the approximate price of an > EOMA68 based on RK3288? not at all: i've literally gone straight from learning of the existence of the RK3288 to starting the PCB layout in under 24 hours. i'm working on the assumption that a higher-end processor, larger amount of RAM and larger amount of NAND (eMMC) will be desirable regardless of cost. the required RAM ICs to reach 4 GB RAM are going to be the $9 *PER RAM IC* variants. that's $36 just in RAM ICs - more than the entire BOM for the EOMA68-A20. 32gb eMMC is also going to be equally costly, and likewise the processor. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk