On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:

not at all :) it's a $2 quad-core 400mhz 55nm processor in a
low-cost 210pin QFP package running (if i understand it correctly) the
cray mainframe instruction set, with absolutely no proprietary
hardware whatsoever: it's therefore FSF-Endorseable.

the allwinner a20 is a dual-core 1.2ghz ARM Cortex with proprietary
video and 3D components priced somewhere around $7.

Ah... somehow I was thinking that the ICore SoC was ARM. Silly me! (Sounds like even if it were, it'd be noticeably worse than the GPU-with-some-small-processing-ability known as the RasPi ;) )

Oh well.