[Freedombox-discuss] [Arm-netbook] Single-Core Cortex A9 1ghz, ECC DDR3 RAM available soon

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Tim Small <tim at seoss.co.uk> wrote:
> On 17/08/11 15:00, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Marvell is pretty good. Whether that is through Marvell's contribution
>> or not I don't know, but in terms of what the end user gets to work
>> with, it's seldom matched and hard to beat.
>
> They are definitely better than some, but OTOH, they don't appear to
> release any technical documentation at all without going through a
> stupid NDA process, and I would summarise my recent dealings Marvell
> regarding their AHCI SATA controllers like this:
>
> me> Your hardware doesn't seem to work under these reproducible
> circumstances
>
> marvell> You must be doing something wrong
>
> me> Here's a load more evidence
>
> marvell> [silence]
>
> me> Hello?
>
> libata maintainer> Is this broken or what, because it looks broken?
> Should we disable this functionality on your controllers?
>
> marvell> [silence]
>
>
> They also only seem to release errata info very quietly and only under NDA.

 interesting.

 so.

 with that in mind, why has the marvell CPU been chosen as the
"flagship product" for the freedombox foundation to honour its
obligations to its kickstarter sponsors?

 so i'll ask again: with for example freescale's long-standing
honourable respect of the GPL, community-driven efforts based around
the MX53QSB, and the reasonable price _and_ the offer of discount
vouchers (which steve mentioned, which is what fired off this thread
in the first place), why has the MX53QSB not been chosen as the board
for the freedombox foundation to honour its obligations to its
kickstarter sponsors?

l.