On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:49 AM, zap  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: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/picking-a-processorthat 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 it.so 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 arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.ukhttp://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbookSend large attachments to arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk