[Arm-netbook] FSF crowd-source tablet/laptop idea

[luke.leighton]

On 10/18/12, Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:29:41 +0100
> Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>
>> I foresee issues surrounding finding FSF endoresable SoCs. The only one
>> including a GPU is that MIPS in the Yeeloong.
>
> The Loongson does not include a GPU, in fact it's not a SoC, it is only a
> CPU.
>
> Graphics in the Yeeloong is provided by a Silicon Motion SM712 (LynxEM+), a
> 1990s era laptop VGA chip.

 yeah.  wild, huh? :)

> There's also a number of discrete devices for various functions in the
> Yeeloong, e.g. an AMD CS5536 "Geode companion" south bridge, a Realtek 8139
> NIC and a NEC USB 2.0 controller. Communication between these is done over
> regular PCI bus, I believe.

 yes.  this is why the leemote all ends up at about 10-12 watts.  it's
all too much.  an AM3892 with say 1gb of 1600mhz DDR3 RAM would be the
kind of insane beefy little system i'd like to propose.

 holy cow, i didn't realise the AM3892 actually has 64-bit DDR3 RAM
interface (2 32-bit).  that would explain why it's 1,000 pins, apart
from anything.  oo, it can do 2gb as well.  wow.   hmmm.... can we
actually _get_ 8 RAM ICs as well as the CPU and a couple of NANDs into
75x45mm? :)

l.