[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-IC1t prototypes back from assembly

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Fri Oct 10 08:11:41 BST 2014


On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at 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 ;) )

 the raspberrby pi cpu is not FSF-Endorseable.



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