[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-IC1t successful board bring-up

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:56:53 +0100
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>
> []
>
>> > Yes, there are several ways to achieve that... but I meant that
>> > maybe some projects will only compile with GCC (or run properly if
>> > compiled with GCC), because they assume quirks in implementation,
>> > invalid syntax in language standards but valid in GCC, and things
>> > like that.  Like the reasons why Linux
>> > kernel does not compile with LLVM.  I think that many projects
>> > might have similar problems if the compiler is not GCC.
>>
>>  well, we just have to suck it and see.  i think we will get a lot of
>> support from ICubeCorp (hopefully this will not overwhelm their
>> engineers) as they will *definitely* want to know when something
>> doesn't work... and fix it!
>
> Sorry, if you said that Cray, Inc. engineers would work on that
> (because rumors say its their architecture, though I didn't see
> someone presenting datasheet comparisons) - that at least somehow
> would sound plausible, but ICubeCorp engineers? Ughh.

 well, actually i since did some more checking and the news i saw
basically says it's a from-scratch design.


> And here's the salt of the story - no, they can't make it. Because in 2
> weeks after ESP8266 went viral, the community, with the help of Cadence
> engineers (Cadence now owning the Xtensa arch on which ESP8266's CPU is
> based) already had a working GCC compiler:
> https://github.com/jcmvbkbc/gcc-xtensa .

 ooo i _like_ the xtensa architecture, i spoke with them a while back.
did you know that the majority of audio codec ICs world-wide use the
xtensa dsp core?  a few years ago before they were bought they claimed
to have *1.6 billion* licenses world-wide.

 cool huh? :)