Re: rhombus tech eoma68 ingenic jz4775 cpu card

[Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com>]

On 27/08/14 13:05, lkcl . wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Luke :)
> 
>  hii paul, nice to meet you
> 
>> That all sounds very interesting! I would definitely be interested in
>> getting involved & helping out, and I imagine others at Imagination
>> may be too!
> 

Indeed!

>> Did you have anything concrete in mind that would be helpful at this
>> stage, or are you more judging interest?
> 
>  bit of both.  background: with 4 CPU cards coming out (ICubeCorp
> IC1T, Allwinner A20, Allwinner A33 and Ingenic JZ4775) in the next few
> months and an upcoming (first) crowdfunding campaign i simply won't
> have time to get everything done myself, so i will kinda need some
> help.

That's an ambitious list of CPU cards..

> 
> so it's a "yes let people know the project exists, see who's out
> there, who'd like some cool early hardware" and also a "these are the
> things that need doing, who'd like to help" enquiry.

Hello from me as well. :)

> 
> and on that list, getting *a* kernel and OS installed is right at the
> top!  literally this will be a bare board, direct from the prototyping
> company.  then begins the task of working out if the hardware's good
> by learning at the same time how to get an OS onto the card *at all*
> :)
> 
> so that's at the micro-level: at the larger level, to give some
> perspective, the goal of the rhombus tech project is to create
> desirable mass-volume affordable environmentally-conscious computing
> appliances, and inviting software libre developers to be involved with
> that process at every step of the way.
> 
> it's quite an ambitious long-term project and the EOMA68 standard is a
> key part of that, being designed to last at least a decade.

Ambitious indeed. Hope it kicks off.

ZubairLK