[Arm-netbook] FSFE discussion list message

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just posted about this in another thread of this mailing list,
> specifically about RISC-V.

... where?

>  Hopefully somebody will make some in silicon
> rather than FPGA, either lowrisc, SiFive, or somebody else.
>
>
> Also I forgot to mention the SH4 architecture with patents expired or
> expiring, and the intention to create the "J" cores, we'll see how it
> goes.
>
>
>> I rather hope for a solid discussion of the merits of the campaign, as
>> opposed
>> to people just claiming that it can't be done, won't work, or whatever.
>
>
> I really believe that it CAN be done and that it WILL work, sooner or
> later ;)

 it will... once people realise that the key bit that's hard is not
the processor core, it's the management and sourcing of the hard
macros *surrounding* the processor core.

l.