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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Haha, just my thought. My first impulse was "Zen @4W, yay!".0 0</div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">------ Original message------</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>From: </b>Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton<lkcl@lkcl.net></lkcl@lkcl.net></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Date: </b>Wed, Mar 1, 2017 20:22</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>To: </b>Linux on small ARM machines;</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [Arm-netbook] Arm processors</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div></div><pre>On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:49 AM, zap <zapper@openmailbox.org> wrote:>>> On 03/01/2017 06:58 PM, John Luke Gibson wrote:>> And, Luke mentioned inquiries being made about using RISC-V in a 100%>> open core board. That's probably a more longterm slightly optimistic>> ah okay fair enough. I was just curious if he planned to reverse> engineer ones with 8gb or more in the later future. reverse-engineering i have come to the conclusion is a total - andcriminal - waste of time and effort. by the time all features are100% stable it's several YEARS down the line. look at how long agothe A64 was released, and the libdram code STILL HAS NOT BEENREVERSE-ENGINEERED. it's 200 lines of code for fuck's sake. NO. read this, zap: <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/picking-a-processorthat">https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/picking-a-processorthat</a> should give you some idea of how insane pretty much every singlefabless semiconductor company really is. they're just not payingattention: every single one of them makes at least one compromise,somewhere, and because it's an *integrated* SoC there's absolutelynothing that can be done about <a href="http://it.so">it.so</a> we need to be of the order of a MILLION units to be in a positionto influence these people. and if you're going for a million units,you might as well get your own SoC custom-made. anyone knows of an open silicon H.264 and MPEG design that is capableof up to 1080p60 video decode, do let me know.l._______________________________________________arm-netbook mailing list<a href="mailto: arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.ukhttp"> arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.ukhttp</a>://<a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbookSend">lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbookSend</a> large attachments to<a href="mailto: arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk"> arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</a></zapper@openmailbox.org></pre></div>
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