On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:29 PM David Niklas doark@mail.com wrote:
this is one thing that really concerns me. the RK3399 came out nearly 3 years ago yet you're saying that *only now* is support for it trickling through to mainstream? what gives?
You're the one to tell us how open-HW is best and you're asking what gives? Surely, this is just another example of how much better FLOSS is!
it's more another example of the shocking waste of talent and resources of proprietary companies spongeing off of software libre resources, expecting them to "pick up after them".
the Libre-SOC ASIC is a hard lesson learned from that: i am making sure that *everything* is in place even before the first silicon is out the door.
if you want to know more then do join one if rhe virtual coffee calls
https://openpowerfoundation.org/openpower-virtual-coffee-calls/
:cry: Another Zoom conference. Proprietary executable. Known spying company. Why luke, why do people always have to choose the worst of proprietary stuff?
i'm not going to try to explain that one to them. it's "open" calls, there's nothing confidential discussed. and there do exist telephone numbers.
sigh.
anyway, they are really wonderful people. the conversations are fascinating, and funny, and often bugger-all to do with PowerISA :)
l.