On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:04:51 -0500 Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
On 08/01/18 09:57 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 05:44:59 -0500 Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
On 07/01/18 01:38 PM, Markus Koßmann wrote:
There is the OpenRisc Project ( https://openrisc.io/) .
This, and other links such as those I mentioned in a previous email, are very frustrating. Flashbacks to Swift and Gulliver: all about designs and simulations, but where can I get the real silicon and real microATX mobo for my desktop PC running Linux?
Well there is silicon available for the RISC-V architecture I mentioned before, and projects to run Debian are under way. gcc is ported, kernel et al are in progress.
https://blog.hackster.io/building-open-hardware-with-risc-v-silicon-39c8348b...
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/risc-v-silico...
https://www.designnews.com/content/linux-now-has-its-first-open-source-risc-...
The developments, and the speed at which it runs, are a long way removed from what I was asking for. A year? Fiver years? A Decade? Right now there's the pressure.
Well, there's more available than anybody else has suggested for any other project, AIUI, so I'm not apologetic for mentioning it.
As I said:
<quote> Right now we have a wave of "I hate Intel" going on and there's a wonderful marketing opportunity for Linux provided its not on Intel/AMD but *IS* packaged like a regular desktop/mobo and supported the way Ubuntu/Suse/Redhat... are with repositories, office, games ... and a neat GUI admin tool like YAST.
The window of opportunity is closing. A month from not many people will be saying "Oh, I have that patched" and "oh, I haven't been affected...". There won't be the interest or incentive. </quote>
There is an opportunity for Linux to take over, displace the Intel/Microsoft monopoly. But that's not going to happen with development boards that run one tenth the speed of current CPUs. A fabulous instruction set and great, "mature" compilers isn't going to displace Intel.
Now if those chips fitted AM2+, AM3/3+, AM4 LGA-H/H2, FM2/2+, the various server sockets ...
Yes, replacement would require some technical dexterity, but for new product there's a host of existing motherboards already in existence & production just waiting to be filled and shipped
As I said, there's ta window of opportunity for Linux to take over. It won't happen with a development board.
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