On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, at 3:37 PM, Chris McGee wrote: > >> I do recall, vaguely, an Olimex comment about graphics being more >> accessible, but I did not make a note, the little that stuck was that >> some hardware manufacturer had embraced a slightly better standard >> than VESA, or some such. There may be some hardware out there that >> does not have "closed" graphics. > > I thought that aijuboard got around this with an fpga implementation of a > frame buffer and hdmi signalling, but I suppose that ramps up the price > significantly as you'd need an fpga board in there and also an hdmi capable > lcd. Otherwise, I wonder how difficult it would be to set up a framebuffer on > the A64 like what was done with Richard's rpi code.
aijuboard isn't cheap in the first place; it's small production volume problem. i think it has displayport, actually. i remember it was a choice between those two standards, and i think hdmi wouldn't have left high-speed channels free for sata. i don't remember any other display output being considered. i do remember much complaining about the displayport standard. oh well. :)
