[MinnowBoard] MinnowBoard MAX not EOLed (just the A2 based boards...)

[John Hawley]

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Afternoon Everyone,

I've been answering this a lot lately, so I'm going to try and get
this all down in one place so people know what's going on.  Many of
you have gotten e-mails, specifically from Mouser, about the MAX being
EOLed.  This is partially true, the A2 based MAXes are being EOLed as
the A4s are getting close to being available, and the A4s have some
user visible changes.  Those changes include (but aren't limited to):
	- Pin 26 on the LSE is changing to provide an MCLK
	- J7's function is changing to (once we get firmware support)
	  to provide a way to clear the NVRAM of the firmware. (this
	  will likely be in AFTER 0.83)

There's some other fixes present as well, things like the I2C level
shifter has been swapped out for one that will handle I2C better, etc.
 Mouser is EOLing the A2 based boards because the SKU will be changing
due to a lot of these changes, this is normal for them, but does not
mean that the MAX (in some form) is gone, quite the contrary.  We've
got new lures that are getting worked out, and new things that we'll
be showing off at ELCE, and going forward.  The SPI Hook, which Tin
Can Tools just released, is one of the things we've been working on,
Microsoft just announced the MinnowBoard MAX as Azure Certified for
IoT, U-Boot firmware support was committed by a GSoC project over the
course of the summer, etc.

There's a lot of stuff going on, we just wanted to make sure everyone
knew what was up with the EOL e-mails, and hopefully let everyone know
we are feeling fine, and are thinking about going for a walk (see
folks in Dublin!) :-)

- - John


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