[Arm-netbook] mali gpu reverse engineering lkcl may ignore

[zap]

On 06/18/2017 06:45 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 11:02 PM, zap <calmstorm at posteo.de> wrote:
>
>> Tell me what you think of lowrisc when you get a chance. I mean as a
>> base for your processors. heh.
>  i feel that the lowrisc team fit better with the ethics of what i
> would like to see be achieved (note deliberate use of third person,
> i.e. that i am not personally tying a personal egoistic agenda to or
> correlation with the desire to see success).
>
>  i noted in particular that the lowrisc team has set up as a CIC.
> that's a big plus.
>
>  technically i am particularly impressed with the concept of using a
> 32-bit RISCV for GPIO, which they call "minion cores".  bitbanging
> isn't really bitbanging any more if there's an entire CPU dedicated to
> it.  the advantage of their approach is that you no longer require
> complex multiplexing hardware on the GPIO (as is normally done, with
> dedicated hardware blocks for each I/O function).  you simply... load
> a different program into the minioncore and the pins which e.g. were
> previously I2C are now UART.  or
> some-other-future-as-yet-unspecified-or-unforseen-I/O-interface.
> upgrading to the latest version of SDMMC is therefore dead easy: just
> write a new program for the minion core.

According to the lowrisc website though, you can make a 64 bit processor
if you so choose though.

http://www.lowrisc.org/about/

I am sure you know this, but I just hope you understand that better
possibilities exist. ;)

I Wonder when they are going to crowdfund though...

> l.
>
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