On 03/01/2017 11:22 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:49 AM, zap zapper@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.
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