[Tinkerphones] GTA04A5: good news and bad news

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting H. Nikolaus Schaller (2017-02-22 17:55:30)
> Am 22.02.2017 um 17:08 schrieb Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:
>> Personally, I think some flexibility about the SoC would be 
>> acceptable for Neo900, but I'm not invested in Maemo at all and have 
>> backed that project because of the form factor, open hardware 
>> aspects, and Free Software support.
> 
> Me too. The issue is what the alternatives really are. Due to space 
> constraints it must be small chips. And PoP is the technology of first 
> choice. Not many hacker friendly ARM SoC are available as PoP.
> 
> Snapdragon: would be fine, but unobtainable in small quantities.
> Mediatek: afaik the same
> RockChip: I don't know if they have PoP mobile chips
> Allwinner: AFAIK no PoP and not power optimized for mobile operation
> Apple A10: unobtainable
> Exynos: AFAIK not well supported
> 
> So TI did alway have the best support for the open/free soft/hardware 
> community (except the IMG PVR SGX). Hence the DM3730 would still be a 
> very good choice.

What numbers are "power optimized for mobile operation"?

Relatively recent power reduction experiments for Allwinner H3 boards: 
https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1614-running-h3-boards-with-minimal-consumption/

Even if the numbers for H3 boards are way off, the methods used might 
still be interesting.


 - Jonas

-- 
 * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
 * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

 [x] quote me freely  [ ] ask before reusing  [ ] keep private
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: signature
URL: <http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20170223/8e344773/attachment.asc>