[Arm-netbook] http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/posts/the-raspberry-pi-suck s.html

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Wed Jun 20 11:16:13 BST 2012


On 06/20/2012 11:09 AM, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tzafrir Cohen<tzafrir at cohens.org.il>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:48:16AM +0200, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
>>> http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/posts/the-raspberry-pi-sucks.html
>>
>> Summary: The Mele a1000 costs way more than a Raspberry PI, but it's
>> worth it. Now go buy it. Here's a link to DealExtreme.
>>
>>
>> No news here if you followed this list.
>
> A10 suffers from the same problems as the BCM chip of the Rpi, namely
> closed source binary blobs for the GPU.

If that is such a big issue (and it is certainly not a trivial issue), 
then maybe pursuing an ARM solution is wrong in the first place and we 
should be pursuing a solution based on Loongson MIPS, a-la Leemote 
Yeeloong or similar.

Gordan



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