[Arm-netbook] AMD APU's in EOMA and ARM SOC's with PCIe

[lkcl luke]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 01:26 AM, lkcl luke wrote:
>>   ok - is it critical?
>>
>>   or, more specifically: is the fact that it's "closed" irrelevant,
>> thanks to the reverse-engineering that's been done?
>>
>>   this is important.  if it's closed and that requires some random
>> proprietary bit, no matter how small it screws things up.  if it's
>> closed and that means some reverse-engineering had to be done which
>> resulted in a working G-Series CPU in coreboot, it doesn't matter.
>>
>>
> coreboot works with it. It's provided as a BLOB from AMD.

 where can i get it?  (i'll start looking but if you have it available
conveniently that would help)

> But you can
> disassemble it if you wish.

 ok.  right.  so, it _is_ proprietary, but there's a disassembler
which understands the proprietary blob, and, as a result, in theory
it's programmable (as in there is nothing to stop anyone), but
normally nobody bothers because you'd just end up with the exact same
blob anyway, and it's assembly-level programming, am i right?

l.