On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Steve Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue 24/05/11 10:17 , David Bisset <david_bisset@btconnect.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm not in favour of supporting HDMI on OMAP3.
> 
> :) I think I've become, if anything, more hardline on this. 
>
> Since the DSS pins can be freed up as precious GPIOs, I think I'm now
> leaning towards just sticking the entire interface on a connector. And
> a less annoying connector than the pair of 1.27mm sockets on Beagle.
>
> If people want, I'll do an HDMI adaptor board, but that keeps all the
> horrors off the Ballon board itself.

That seems like a reasonable approach to me.

(The USB->DVI dongles are ok, but not great IMO; I have one supplying a
3rd monitor off my laptop, but even though the kernel as the base driver
in it these days the X stuff is still a bit of a kludge.)

> I'm contemplating a couple of mini-PCI-E sockets, too (in USB-only
> mode). This might be a less contentios way of adding wifi, cellphone
> and whatever else we fancy, without having to buy anonymous Chinese
> USB dongles and hoping the chipset's not changed.
>
> If anyone wanted to build a GPMC - Wishbone - PCI-E (or even regular
> PCI) egine for the FPGA, we could run a very useful backplane. But
> that sounds hard.

If anyone wants to get fancy then an ethernet device and a boot loader
capable of talking to it would be pretty handy for getting software onto
the device quickly, especially during development.

OOI, what sort of time frame are you looking at for having initial boards
up and running?

J.

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