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On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Wolfgang Romey (hier) hier@wolfgangromey.de wrote:
Hallo Luke,
surely you know the ARM Cortex-A15.
yes. it's the much-higher-power-performance variant of the A15. as such about the only possible SoCs we could put into EOMA68 if they use A15 is if they were single-core.
I would like the drawbacks of the PYRA. Can you please, if you have the time, tell me something about it.
the pyra uses the OMAP5 which is fine... i just won't use it because of PowerVR. every single company that has ever gotten involved with a PowerVR GPU has had absolute hell from its users. that includes Intel, with their early Atom series about a decade ago.
Especially the GPU, are there any gpl violations of the producers of the Cortex A15 and why you did not choose it for the eoma68. I do not find it in your comparison of the processors.
that's because Cortex A15 is a *type of processor* - it's a licenseable hard macro from ARM - not an *actual* processor make/model in and of itself.
remember, ARM licenses processor *designs*, they do **NOT** actually *MAKE* processors. they're what's called a "fabless semiconductor design company".
l.