* Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> [2017-06-27 21:05:07 +0200]: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Kyle Robbertze <krobbertze@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The opsis will support 1080p through an SDI add-on board that has just > > been funded. [1] > > We're looking at a $450 board which is fragile enough that Debian > already owns a broken one and the supplier recommends N+2. It's never been broken (we had one DOA board that was exchanged by the supplier). I agree that the firmware is somewhat fragile, and imo having n+1 (or n+2 if you want a board a dev plays with during the conf) makes sense anyway for custom stuff you can't get changed on the spot. > Said boards will be shipped back and forth around the world at least once per > year by external carriers. > > The FPGA code of the board, which is not yet written, needs add-on > boards valued ~$100 for getting around the limitations of USB 2.0; but > said cards are not available in volume, purchasable world-round > quickly in a pinch, or with any kind of longer-term supply plan other > than "stock your own". > > The cables needed to make the $550 construction work are not currently > available at all. > > > A purchase valued 18k€ in cameras alone is relying on this construct > for the foreseeable future. No it's not. We're getting blackmagic capture cards (each valued 165 euros) with proprietary firmware and drivers that happen to just work, for the purpose of capturing from the cameras. > The appeal of open hardware notwithstanding, the more I ponder this, > the less sense it's making to me; fiscally and technology-wise. Probably because you're mixing things up :) It's great to see this spurt of activity on the mailing list. But I have to say that it's around eight months too late to decide to be testing nageru at DebConf 17. We're operating under a very, very limited core volunteer time budget and we frankly will not have time to do all of that during DebCamp. I'd be glad to revisit this once DebConf 17 is over and we'll be able to breathe. But for now let's run with the things we have tested and work, shall we? Our equipment is idle 11 months out of twelve, I'm sure we can arrange a sprint to test things out after the dust settles. Thanks, -- Nicolas Dandrimont BOFH excuse #115: your keyboard's space bar is generating spurious keycodes.
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