Removing Glamo from GTA02 (Was: Welcome)

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Mon Apr 20 16:47:28 CEST 2009


Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Or even more cost savings: remove both, the NOR and NAND flash and add  
> some ROM for a minimal SD boot loader. Then boot and operate from a  
> large high-quality SD card (operated like an SSD). It can't be ejected  
> during operation anyway. Every PC boots today from the main disk...

Ah I answered that just a few days ago:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/gta03/2009-April/000046.html

Besides, I wonder if you could actually get a suitable ROM chip.
Even a small 1.8 V NOR was hard to find, and that's still fairly
mainstream technology.

- Werner



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