
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, the main person behind the EOMA68 Libre Laptop project and EOMA68-A20 computer card, continues work on this effort. He spoke last weekend at FOSDEM 2018 about these efforts.
The current EOMA68 card work is around the Allwinner A20 SoC, which by today's standards is unfortunately a bit slow with being dual-core Cortex A7 CPUs and backed by Mali 400 MP2 graphics. The processor performance is sadly crippling compared to today's other hardware and the Mali graphics still don't have fully working and libre graphics driver support. The computer card is also still aiming for 2GB of RAM and 8GB of NAND.
The project's Crowd Supply page is reporting the computer cards should begin shipping in June along with the micro-desktop housing but it is not expected to be until November when the laptop housing kit begins to ship.
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton's FOSDEM presentation can be found embedded below for those interested in learning more about the EOMA68 computer card effort.
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