Hello Peter,
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:05:15PM -0800, Peter Lindener wrote:
I'm a little frustrated that the Lenovo Thinkpad x250 only haas one DIM slot, and is thus limited to 8Gb of ram... not all so good if one is apt to be compiling FPGA code..
You're right with the single DIMM slot, but it can be configured with one DIMM of 16 GiB like I did for the notebook on my desk:
*-memory description: System Memory physical id: 8 slot: System board or motherboard size: 16GiB *-bank description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns) product: 16KTF2G64HZ-1G6A1 vendor: Micron physical id: 0 serial: 17538116 slot: ChannelA-DIMM0 size: 16GiB width: 64 bits clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
So, the x250 could still fit your requirements.
It seems the X260 would fill the bill, but it wont be available until approx Feb 2016..
Is running Genode on a x260 likely to much of an issue with respect to I/O drver code and the like ?
I do not have information about the hardware the x260 will bring but you may expect standard peripherals (e.g., AHCI and keyboard/trackpoint) to work after some tweaking while the Intel graphics driver and audio will potentially need more effort. I suggest you to stick to the x250 for now except you're willing to potentially spend significant effort to enable the more stubborn devices.
Regards