00:18 <GNUtoo-irssi> hi, I saw some EOMA68 prototypes at the FOSDEM, and I've several questions I forgott to ask:

00:19 <GNUtoo-irssi> 1) I see ath9k_htc and RT2070 wifi modules, on the laptop, can an ath9k_htc module be used instead? are they easy to find? (so the wifi remains internal)

00:19 <GNUtoo-irssi> 2) About the MIPS, is its SMID engine well supported by gcc?

00:24 <GNUtoo-irssi> As for the ec, the chromebooks also use another free software project

12:30 <lkcl_> GNUtoo-irssi: hallo!

12:31 <lkcl_> GNUtoo-irssi: right - you can use anything that's USB-based. there are 2 internal USB slots, and 1 external. the plan is, if you want WIFI, 3G, extra USB storage, anything like that, you open up the compartment and put them in. or not. there's *no* "soldered-down" WIFI or anything like that

12:32 <lkcl_> you want LTE in the future, off you go - open up the compartment, slot it in.

12:34 <lkcl_> GNUtoo-irssi: the ingenic X-Burst engine is.... odd :)

12:34 <lkcl_> GNUtoo-irssi: here's some patches that i found: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mips-creator-ci20/d4HTdXMsJVo

12:35 <lkcl_> with there being the ci20 dev-kit out there now (which uses a dual-core jz4780 which has a powervr GPU so i will *not* be using it) there is much more interest in ingenic processors in general

12:48 <lkcl_> GNUtoo-irssi: regarding the EC, yes i saw that project with the chromebook EC, yes they do keyboard-scanning as well. although it was useful to see i couldn't really make much sense of the organisation of the source code.

16:34 <lkcl_> GNUtoo-irssi: but, thankfully, i have some rudimentary stm32f072 firmware up and running: the keyboard is not entirely bug-free but is actually functional, and i can talk to the touchpanel.

16:34 <lkcl_> that's good enough :)

17:05 <arossdotme-planb> lkcl_, Yea! :)

17:06 <arossdotme-planb> lkcl_, Yay! (i keep on using yea when i mean yay...)