Re: [Arm-netbook] mali gpu reverse engineering lkcl may ignore

2017-06-23 Thread Mike Leimon
On 06/23/2017 11:29 AM, Bill Kontos wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:27 PM, David Niklas wrote: > >> Now can we get back to how to do the reverse engineering itself? > Someone should suggest Luc to open a monthly patreon-styled donation > page for working on lima. If ARM is still as openly host

[Arm-netbook] postMarketOS : good fit for EOMA50/68?

2017-05-29 Thread Mike Leimon
Announcement of this project has been making the rounds lately and I think that it might be an excellent fit for an EOMA50 based phone/tablet (if and when those designs materialize). https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/ Currently they are targeting only old phone hardware however, I

[Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card / EOMA50

2017-05-20 Thread Mike Leimon
> the layout's hilarious: the PCB is over 50% completely empty. Allow me to be the first to point out that for this very reason this SOC might be an excellent candidate for the first SOC to adapt to the EOMA50 standard. > remember that this *really is* the bare minimum - it'll be amazingly an und

[Arm-netbook] System 76 - Entering Phase 3

2017-04-20 Thread Mike Leimon
Lyberta: > Couple of points that got my attention. They say Linux instead of > GNU/Linux. Open source instead of Free/Libre Software. They also > mentioned Ubuntu. This was enough to me to stop having any respect for > them. At least based on that post. While I understand what you are saying I don

[Arm-netbook] System 76 - Entering Phase 3

2017-04-20 Thread Mike Leimon
Luke, et.al. I saw this blog post a couple of nights ago: http://blog.system76.com/post/159767214983/entering-phase-three and I was thinking to myself that it might not be a half bad idea to try and contact these guys and see if they might be interested in making an EOMA-68 laptop and maybe even

[Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Mike Leimon
> The first one has something that looks suspiciously like a penis on the > bottom-right. > > I'm sure it doesn't look like that if you're an electrical engineer, or > whatever, but people -- especially kids and teenagers -- *will* see > that, and that's probably not the kind of attention EOMA need

[Arm-netbook] Logos

2017-03-18 Thread Mike Leimon
Okay, I feel like I should take a swing or two at this as well. In the following two cases, there isn't any special font being used. I'm just using inkscape to trace out the characters that I want show... http://imgur.com/GrnfRHe Of these two logos that I sent, my preference is for the second.

[Arm-netbook] AMD considering releasing the PSP

2017-03-15 Thread Mike Leimon
> Ok so basically this will allow type II cards( smaller) to fit into type > III housings and utilize higher clocks ? I think the idea is a bit better than that even. I think that by default all Type II cards must adhere/support the 5W upper thermal limit. However, even in a Type II slot the card

[Arm-netbook] Prototype Circuit Board Printer

2017-03-15 Thread Mike Leimon
Just in case you all haven't seen this before (or haven't thought about it). I was thinking that since it seems like lots of prototype boards are being made perhaps a prototype circuit board printer like the following might be useful for prototyping some of the simpler support boards (e.g. some of

[Arm-netbook] Enough Space in the 15.6" laptop housing for an SSD?

2017-02-10 Thread Mike Leimon
In light of all the recent discussions about journaling filesystems and system logging on systems with flash storage. I'm a feeling a bit curious to to know if there is enough space within that included "internal" usb cavity of the 15.6" laptop housing to be able to house a small M.2 42mm usb devic

[Arm-netbook] t-firefly RK3399 in crowdfunding

2016-12-05 Thread Mike Leimon
Since as I understand it, the people at t-firefly have been pretty helpful towards getting the RK3288 EOMA board put together, I figured I would point out that they have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a RK3399 development board. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1771382379/firef

Re: [Arm-netbook] arm-netbook Digest, Vol 77, Issue 5

2016-12-04 Thread Mike Leimon
> Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 19:07:32 + > From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > To: Linux on small ARM machines > Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at > dell xps 13 9350 > Message-ID: > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-

[Arm-netbook] RK3288

2016-11-15 Thread Mike Leimon
Regarding the RK3288, allow me to redirect your attention to a page on the archlinuxARM website: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/rockchip/asus-chromebook-flip-c100p The ASUS Chromebook Flip uses the RK3288 processor and has at least some degree of support on the Linux side or I don't thi

[Arm-netbook] The sincerest form of flattery

2016-09-15 Thread Mike Leimon
I saw this link today and thought to myself that it looked awfully familiar http://liliputing.com/2016/09/closer-look-kangaroo-notebook-modular-pc-system-video.html While I am hoping their pilot program is successful (because modular and upgradeable laptops is a great idea), this whole implem

[Arm-netbook] As promised... a small fix to the Wiki

2016-09-06 Thread Mike Leimon
Okay, I think I finally got this one section of the wikipedia page correctly ironed out now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOMA68#Size I did notice while I was cross checking things though, that the PC Card spec for Type III cards is actually 10.5mm in height, not 8mm (as it is for the EOMA68 spe

[Arm-netbook] One issue with the EOMA68 Wikipedia

2016-09-06 Thread Mike Leimon
Luke, I took a quick glance at the Wikipedia entry and saw what I thought was an error and I will fix the problem if you can confirm that I understand the situation correctly. The wikipedia article says the following: """ There are two different physical profiles of EOMA68 (based around the leg

[Arm-netbook] An update on the OLIMEX TERES-I laptop

2016-09-01 Thread Mike Leimon
Oh yeah, I stumbled across this blog update yesterday as well. https://olimex.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/teres-i-diy-open-source-hardware-hackers-laptop-update/ Now I do realize that yet again that some people around here aren't the biggest fans of OLIMEX however, keep in mind that I'm not submitti

[Arm-netbook] New Open Access Journal for Open Source Hardware

2016-09-01 Thread Mike Leimon
Greetings all, One of my friends brought this new open access journal to my attention this morning. Apparently, it is just starting up now and looking for an initial call for papers. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/hardwarex/ Ordinarily, I wouldn't have brought this up at all however, since it

[Arm-netbook] Getting the word out

2016-07-02 Thread Mike Leimon
Greetings all, I have been trying to help get the word out about the crowdfunding campaign the past few days and I am thinking that the crowdfunding campaign should probably be brought to the attention of the following people/groups: * Linux Action Show (podcast) http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.co