On 03/01/2017 11:22 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:49 AM, zap <zap...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >> >> On 03/01/2017 06:58 PM, John Luke Gibson wrote: >>> And, Luke mentioned inquiries being made about using RISC-V in a 100% >>> open core board. That's probably a more longterm slightly optimistic >> ah okay fair enough. I was just curious if he planned to reverse >> engineer ones with 8gb or more in the later future. > reverse-engineering i have come to the conclusion is a total - and > criminal - waste of time and effort. by the time all features are > 100% stable it's several YEARS down the line. look at how long ago > the A64 was released, and the libdram code STILL HAS NOT BEEN > REVERSE-ENGINEERED. it's 200 lines of code for fuck's sake. Wait its criminal?
Well at least I know now. But I do recall you were talking about other processors even after that. I must have been mistaken > > NO. > > read this, zap: > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/picking-a-processor So Rockchip and A20 are the only ones you can do it too you think? Ah okay. Well I hope something will change for you. though unlikely it may seem. and even more than that, I hope Trisquel 8 will someday come out of alpha and support arm as a whole. > that should give you some idea of how insane pretty much every single > fabless semiconductor company really is. they're just not paying > attention: every single one of them makes at least one compromise, > somewhere, and because it's an *integrated* SoC there's absolutely > nothing that can be done about it. That bad huh? I had no idea that it was that frustrating. > > so we need to be of the order of a MILLION units to be in a position > to influence these people. and if you're going for a million units, > you might as well get your own SoC custom-made. > > anyone knows of an open silicon H.264 and MPEG design that is capable > of up to 1080p60 video decode, do let me know. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk