Future (turbo) expansion board?

Would it be possible to connect a "turbo board" to the GPIO connector? This board could have a quad or octo core ARM chip, 1Gb ram, and wifi. The world is your oyster...

You can use the turbo board on its own if it is so powerful

[mahjongg]

This is already done, using a powerful server communicating with the R-PI over ethernet with an R-PI, which is doing the video rendering, and accepting keyboard and mouse I/O, its called a
"Citrix’s XenDesktop remote desktop", and there was piece about it on the home page a short while ago.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1222

by the way, the GPIO port probably won't provide enough bandwidth, to do this, so using ethernet is a better choice.

why would you connect a more powerfull machine as a "expansion" to a slower machine? But yes it is possible if the other board has GPIO too, you can implement a simple protocol like SPI and exchange data i think

by the way, the GPIO port probably won't provide enough bandwidth, to do this, so using ethernet is a better choice.

Actually, the SPI bus (available on the GPIO connector) is potentially higher-banwidth than Ethernet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Pe ... erface_Bus
Some ethernet chips actually interface to the host CPU / microcontoller via SPI (unlike the ethernet chip on the Raspi, which interfaces via USB)

[Gert van Loo]

For really high speed use a DSI to CSI connection: 1.2Gbps

For really high speed use a DSI to CSI connection: 1.2Gbps

I thought on the RPi the DSI and CSI interfaces were entirely GPU-side, i.e. not usable by anyone outside Broadcom?