[Open-graphics] Linuxtag 2008

[André Pouliot]

Michael Meeuwisse wrote:
>
> Then, to wrap up this overview, a fun little story about this guy. I 
> forgot his name, but he was enthusiastic as hell, during the 
> discussion grabbed his laptop and even started to take a good long 
> long at the schematics and told me that I should told everbody to (I 
> actually wrote this down) "Diodes for voltage circuits, connect them 
> to the input rail (pin 4) on page 18 and maybe other ones as well. 
> Parallel diodes -> lower resistance -> better". I promised him I 
> would, although I couldn't guarantee that we where going to change it 
> because well, we're already close to actually producing the cards. 
> Didn't matter, he said, change it. But apart from that he thought this 
> was a brilliant card and he /had/ to tell a friend (who was somewhere 
> around linuxtag as well, just not here at the moment) about it so he 
> called him. The reply from the other guy came quick enough, "Yeah, I 
> know, I already ordered one.".
>
He found a bug in the schematics, that pins should already be connected 
unless the schematics isn't up to date. At least it should be easy 
enough to connect it in the schematic and correct the layout if needed.