The goal of the EOMA (Embedded Open Modular Architecture) project is to introduce the idea of being ethically responsible about both the ecological and the financial resources required to design, manufacture, acquire and maintain our personal computing devices. The EOMA68 standard is a freely-accessible, royalty-free, unencumbered hardware standard formulated and tested over the last five years around the ultra-simple philosophy of "just plug it in: it will work".
With devices built following this standard, one can upgrade the CPU-card (consisting of CPU, RAM and some local storage) of a device while keeping the same housing (e.g. laptop). One can also use the CPU-card in different devices (e.g. unplug CPU-card from laptop, plug into desktop); or use a replaced/discarded CPU-card from a laptop for NAS storage or a micro-server. There are housings currently available for a laptop (can be 3D-printed in full, or in part to replace parts that break) and a micro-desktop; and there are plans for others like routers or tablets in the future.
There are multiple articles talking about this project and analyzing the hardware, for example from ThinkPenguin, CNXSoft or EngadgetNG. There is also a recent live-streamed video introducing the project.
(Score: 1) by lkcl on Tuesday August 02 2016, @07:11PM
Even as an ideological project it fails. All arm cpus in the past decade
more or less have had a trusted execution core that is not accessible
by the rest of the system. In phones this is the drm cpu that
makes sure the media you play on it is legit.
everything that you've said, whilst true for *specific* ARM SoCs from
manufacturers who *specifically* work hand-in-hand with the cartels
and U.S. Government spying agencies, for this *SPECIFIC* SoC that
has been chosen, everything that you've said is completely false.
i would not work on a project for five years to bring you an RYF
Certifiable device if i had *any* indication that the A20 was designed
to spy on people.
you can get a *small* glimpse into the evaluation process that has
been ongoing for five years, here:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/picking-a-processor [crowdsupply.com]