From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:39:48 +1000 Message-ID: From: Shane Morris To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c27c848ba0b30501d66300 Subject: [9fans] ODROID-W Update Topicbox-Message-UUID: 13ddc648-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11c27c848ba0b30501d66300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello 9fans, After getting myself an ODROID-W as part of my contract for a deeply embedded Linux appliance yesterday, I read this on the Hardkernel website this evening: *Not recommended for new designs. Broadcom will not supply the SoC to Hardkernel.When the first trial batch is sold out, you can=E2=80=99t buy th= e ODROID-W anymore. Sorry for the inconvenience.* Now, if you'd like to know my personal thoughts on this, you're more than welcome to email me privately, but my wish to make a Inferno powered tablet from the ODROID-W has now been deep-sixed, as the additional ODROID I picked up from the contract has already been soldered up in a "minimal" configuration suitable for placing on a UAV, and thats exactly what it'll be doing, now that its become one of the rarest (and smallest, for the size/ performance ratio) motherboards on the face of the planet. I was hoping however, under sustained production of the boards, to produce the Inferno tablet, and announce it to the community. Oh well. Pride goeth, and all that... --001a11c27c848ba0b30501d66300 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello 9fans,

After getting myself an OD= ROID-W as part of my contract for a deeply embedded Linux appliance yesterd= ay, I read this on the Hardkernel website this evening:

Not recommended for ne= w designs.=C2=A0Broadcom will not supply the SoC to Hardkernel.
When the= first trial batch is sold out, you can=E2=80=99t buy the ODROID-W anymore.= =C2=A0
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Now, if you'd like to know my personal thoug= hts on this, you're more than welcome to email me privately, but my wis= h to make a Inferno powered tablet from the ODROID-W has now been deep-sixe= d, as the additional ODROID I picked up from the contract has already been = soldered up in a "minimal" configuration suitable for placing on = a UAV, and thats exactly what it'll be doing, now that its become one o= f the rarest (and smallest, for the size/ performance ratio) motherboards o= n the face of the planet. I was hoping however, under sustained production = of the boards, to produce the Inferno tablet, and announce it to the commun= ity.

= Oh well. Pride goeth, and all that...
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