Author: Nick Bane Date: To: Wookey, Balloon Subject: RE: [Balloon] Re: Processor update to XScale
> Tricky. I'm trying to keep Balloon3 cheaper & easier to > > manufacture than Balloon2 was. Adding chips to the board which
> > not everyone wants, and which can be added at least as cheaply
> > on a CF card, needs some justification. The only reason I'd fit
> > Ethernet on the board would be to get Power-over-Ethernet,
> > which you don't get from a CF card.
> > I'm prepared to be convinced otherwise, but, for the moment, no
> > built-in Ethernet...
>
> Having just been to a talk extolling the virtues of POE I did think 'that
> would be nice on balloon' - the only truly international standard power
> source. But I wonder how it would fit in with the already numerous power
> options. And it would probably be 2 chips - the ethernet one and the POE
> one.
>
> I do miss ethernet...but USB provides most of the same functionality.
> And bear in mind that we have usb master on pxa270 so that we aren't limited to usbnet hosts for connectivity. Doesn't help power of course.
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