[Arm-netbook] One other thing -- emulation question...

[Scott Sullivan]

On 10/22/2013 09:55 PM, Christopher Havel wrote:
> On 10/22/2013 9:49 PM, luke.leighton wrote:
>> ICT designed the loongson it's MIPS with hardware-assist
>> acceleration/translation of the 200 most popular x86 instructions.  it
>> gets 70% the speed of an x86 CPU.  transmeta was extreme-end of that
>> scale, sadly went belly-up.
>>
>> l.
>>
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> Well, that sucks for Transmeta I guess...
>
> Slightly better idea -- since IIRC the final version of the initial CPU
> Card will be using a dual-core A20... how about using one core for the
> emulation part and the other for execution...? That would speed things
> up a little as well, because there'd be at least a "sort-of" hardware
> pre-processor setup that way.

It's easy to suggest idea's, what's more powerful is providing an open 
platform on which those that are passionate about those ideas can build 
on. I feel luke has set the right base line goals of simply getting GPL 
respecting hardware into the hands of developers. From there true 
innovation can happen in the hands of hundreds instead of the limited 
few that are currently shepherding the seeds of EOMA-68 ecosystem.

For the short term, let's keep our eyes on the prize. That prize being a 
large scale run of cards on which revenue can be made and invested in 
furthering the EOMA-68 ecosystem.

-- 
Scott Sullivan