[mntmn]

One thing that doesn't come up here yet: our partners RBZ have developed an open hardware alternative SOM for MNT Reform based on NXP LS1028A with 2 Cortex-A72 cores and 8 or 16GB RAM. This is currently in the first bringup phase, but sources are already released:

https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-layerscape-ls1028a-s...

I'm also personally working on a Kintex-7 (FPGA) SOM. This will allow us and others to implement RISC-V or other architectures, incl. retrocomputers and carry them around in a laptop form factor.

[fentonc]

What type of Kintex-7 part were you thinking? This is a little more svelte than my 16-core Z80 "ZedRipper": http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-zedripper-part-1/

[mntmn]

Ha, I've seen that! Really cool project!

The default part will be XC7K160T-FFG676, AFAIK it has some pin compatible family members as well.

[kop316]

I just want to say, that is a fantastic project!

[jron]

Will you offer the MNT Reform with the new SOM (Cortex-A72) when it becomes available? I wanted to pull the trigger on the first batch but needed something a bit faster than a Raspberry Pi.

[mntmn]

Sure, but that will still take a while.