[Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] GTA04A5 and News from the Kernel

[Paul Boddie]

On Tuesday 29. November 2016 16.01.43 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> What is your benefit:
> a) it supports getting the GTA04A5 to a success,
> b) success of the GTA04A5 means the most free hardware becomes available
> again, c) the device is well supported by mainline kernel,
> d) since the Neo900 wants to use exactly the same DM3730CBP chip it will
>    run into the same soldering problems, unless we solve them here.
> 
> Here is a link to the goldelico shop where you can donate for this project:
> 
> http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%3ADonation

Firstly, thank you for your efforts in pushing this project forward, despite 
it costing you quite a bit of time and money. I am already a supporter of 
Neo900, but before that initiative started I had considered pre-ordering the 
GTA04 instead. (I held off because there didn't seem to be a reliable route to 
getting a complete device, at least not without getting a GTA02 first.)

It certainly seems important to Neo900 to get these issues resolved, and I 
guess the Neo900 people are aware of this, but I also wondered whether the 
Pyra had any similar issues and how they might have been resolved there. I see 
that the Pyra uses an OMAP5 SoC, not the OMAP3 SoC used here, so the 
conditions are obviously not identical, but since you were involved in getting 
the Pyra's hardware finished, maybe there are some things that keep recurring 
with these TI parts and that might be applicable here.

I'm just speculating, really, but also trying to offer some moral support, 
too.

Paul