I wrote a news item about
86Duino and its possible use with KolibriOS on habrahabr.ru:
http://habrahabr.ru/company/kolibrios/blog/203948/This news item got over 1000 visits to
http://www.86duino.com/ , so the creator of 86Duino,
Roboard employee (part of DMP Electronics group) Anthony Lu has noticed my article, read it (probably using Google Translate) and contacted me on Facebook. Below is a script of my correspondence with him, and he needs our help in order to install KolibriOS in BIOS.
yogev_ezra писал(а):
Hi Anthony! What do you think about making a version of eBox with KolibriOS preinstalled inside SPI flash?
Anthony Lu писал(а):
actually I am not charge ebox product, I am handle 86Duino, and also ebox does not include SPI flash.
yogev_ezra писал(а):
86Duino is also good idea for KolibriOS. We are already discussing it with our team. But the problem is 86Duino doesn't have built-in video adapter. And I refer to 2MB internal flash that stores BIOS, not external SPI flash.
And I saw that you ported Coreboot to 86Duino, is it already running Coreboot on versions that you will sell on January 15th?
Anthony Lu писал(а):
about Coreboot, yes
and the model call 86Duino One has reserve one PCIe slot, and it is capable to plug VGA Card, we already made another VGA chip, and will have PCIe VGA card in 2 or 3 months
current PCIe VGA in the market is very expensive around USD 100.00, so we will made our self
yogev_ezra писал(а):
Yes this is exactly what I was thinking. I saw miniPCIe VGA cards for 50$ from Commell:
http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/Perip ... PX-750.HTM but it makes the total cost too expensive and not worthy
Anthony Lu писал(а):
yap, something like this VGA Card
and back to SPI issue
yogev_ezra писал(а):
yes?
Anthony Lu писал(а):
the internal EBOX SPI flash, not suggestion install OS
cuz inside flash not able to read / write many times
yogev_ezra писал(а):
why? KolibriOS only needs 1.44MB, and the SPI flash is 2MB. BIOS uses 256KB, so enough left for KolibriOS. And KolibriOS never does write, only read.
it runs from RAM (creates RAM-disk), like Puppy Linux
Anthony Lu писал(а):
OKay, I got it
yogev_ezra писал(а):
I think you miss a big potential, I offer this many times and your staff never respond to my offer. We can pay money what is needed to adapt the eBox. We can do Kickstarter project and collect the amount of money needed, you just need to tell us how much it is worth.
Anthony Lu писал(а):
oh.. sorry, as you know I am not charge ebox product, there is another manager handle
and I will talk to our boss directly about this,
yogev_ezra писал(а):
yes I know, but you are the only guy from DMP who always cooperate and answer questions, so it's natural that people ask you
other people in DMP never answer...
Anthony Lu писал(а):
I forward your article to boss yesterday, you wrote about our CPU, he seems very interesting, I will talk with with when he back to Taiwan
yogev_ezra писал(а):
Anthony Lu писал(а):
yes, the Russian article, part 1 and part 3 ... can not see part 2.. ha ha
yogev_ezra писал(а):
haha i wrote that part 2 doesn't published yet because I was in the army. I live in Israel, here you have to do army 3 years regular service, and then also every year 10-20 days reserve service, till age of 40. I am 36, so I still have to do it. So I was exactly doing it when I write part 2, and I decided to publish part 3 first.
I am glad you liked it. I really like your hardware because it's ideal for KolibriOS in my opinion - it's the cheapest x86 hardware today.
Anthony Lu писал(а):
in Taiwan we do 2 years Army Service, and thanks love our product.
yogev_ezra писал(а):
This Russian website has 1,000,000 views per week, it is the largest IT resource in Russia. And to write corporate blog there the subscription is very expensive, but because KolibriOS is free software, they give us to write the blog for free. So you may use this if you want to increase sales, I can write in Russian about your new products.
You just need to send me information.
I wonder how did you find out that I wrote this article about you yesterday? You got a lot of traffic from this website?
Anthony Lu писал(а):
that is sounds good, I know the website is popular, cuz I check my record, there have more than 1000 visitor came to 86Duino.com, cuz this website link, that is why I find you
I have another meeting, need to go out, and keep in touch, your request I keep in mind, no worry.
and we can discuss all the time.
yogev_ezra писал(а):
thank you very much for answering me, I hope we can continue discussion later today or tomorrow.
Anthony Lu писал(а):
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