On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 7:58 PM Jan Wielkiewicz tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl wrote:
Dnia 2020-09-18, o godz. 14:08:29 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net napisał(a):
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:41 AM Jan Wielkiewicz tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl wrote:
Hello Luke and others!
hi jan
Are there any news about the cards? We're slowly reaching the next estimated shipping date (30 September), so let us know if there's anything new (I know the answer for the shipping date is the same as always).
i'm pinging mike to find out where he's at. will let you know.
Sooooo did you find out anything?
he had to move to a bigger factory, and will be carrying on the production.
By the way, I just saw you're doing a code freeze of the processor. Do you have any estimations of when the first products using the simple version of the core may be available?
mmm...
I have some pocket money hungry for crowdfunding.
right now they'll need to be big pockets, it's costing NLnet EUR 18,000 to do a few test ASICs (maybe 30, of which maybe 15 might work).
we also need to be very careful in whom we give them to because we are required to comply with the OPF's EULA. if it's non-compliant with the OpenPOWER Compliance Requirements, we can't sell it. however... there is a leeetle wiggle-room inasmuch as IBM and other entities would have to show "material harm" caused by our test ASIC.
if we sold 100,000 such non-compliant test ASICs such that people start doing upstream kernel development to cater for the mistakes, that starts to piss people off who make literally billions of dollars from the reputation going back 25 years of OpenPOWER ISA being "unified, stable and reliable".
if however we sold... mmm... 1000 on the SPECIFIC condition that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES was this to be considered anything other than a test ASIC, then *MAYBE* it would be ok.
l.