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to: COMPUTER NERD KEV
from: RICHARD OWLETT
date: 2020-02-23 03:44:00
subject: Re: Selecting compatible

On 02/22/2020 03:11 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Jim H  wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:21:28 +0000 (UTC), in
>> , not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd
>> Kev) wrote:
>>> Jim H  wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:43:32 -0600, in
>>>> , Richard Owlett
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 02/17/2020 04:24 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>>>> There's a wiki with extensive documentation relating to the Pi here:
>>>>>> https://elinux.org/RPi_Hub
>>>>>
>>>>> Lots of good information {bookmarked} but it has a different purpose.
>>>>
>>>> Last edit to that page was in May 2018. Good for anything happening
>>>> before then, seemingly abandoned since.
>>>
>>> That's no indication regarding the Wiki as a whole. There was, for
>>> example, a page added for the details of the GPIOs in the SoC used
>>> for the Raspberry Pi 4:
>>> https://elinux.org/RPi_BCM2711_GPIOs
>>
>> OK... but my remarks were about the PAGE referenced earlier. I said
>> nothing about the Wiki as a whole.
>
> I wasn't implying that the extensive documentation was only to be
> found written on that index page obviously, when one is on the web
> one must click the links. Anyhow it's clearly still possible for
> people to edit it, so seems as good a place as any (again talking
> about the Wiki here, not the specific index page) to put a
> comprehensive "matrix" of Pi compatible components (there are already
> lists there to start with), which is what the OP seemed to be looking
> for.

Yes. My attempt is on hold due to time conflict with another project.
One sub-question was "Is there a place for such a list?". The wiki seems
recognized as appropriate.

>
> Though he seems only to be interested in documenting a sub-set that
> interests him specifically, so I guess not.

My focus is more on presentation format than units covered. At a minimum
I would cover everything listed in Wikipedia at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

My motivation is that I was blindsided Pi Zero having a different
display connection than the rest of the line.

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