[Arm-netbook] mali gpu reverse engineering lkcl may ignore

[zap]

On 06/18/2017 09:39 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:06 AM, zap <calmstorm at posteo.de> wrote:
>
>> According to the lowrisc website though, you can make a 64 bit processor
>> if you so choose though.
>  yes.  the minioncores would be on the same bus, not requiring any
> kind of cache coherency with either each other or with the main 64-bit
> CPU(s), either doing DMA writes (on their own) or responding to bus
> memory reads/writes in order appear as memory-addressable peripherals.
>
>> I am sure you know this, but I just hope you understand that better
>> possibilities exist. ;)
>  you may be misunderstanding that the purpose of 32-bit minion cores
> is *in addition* to there being one or more main processor(s) which
> are SMP or NUMA, which themselves have a bus width (32, 64, 128 bit)
> that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the minion-cores
> being 32-bit.
>
>> I Wonder when they are going to crowdfund though...
>  i get the general impression that they're quite happy to focus on
> development as opposed to raising funds to create an actual processor.
> each task requires different skills, time and effort.  if the team
> focussed on crowdfunding that would be a serious distraction from
> their development efforts.
>
>  this therefore is an opportunity to create a crowd-funded processor
> which utilises their expertise.  the one main thing which i could
> really do with is a DDR or other high-speed memory interface that is
> proven... and compatible with the GPL.

I guess I misunderstood then on both counts. well this is odd.  xD

> l.
>
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