Haha, just my thought. My first impulse was "Zen @4W, yay!".0 0 ------ Original message------From: Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonDate: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 20:22To: Linux on small ARM machines;Cc: Subject:Re: [Arm-netbook] Arm processors 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-processor... 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