Lowrisc cpu in a notebook?
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Lowrisc http://www.lowrisc.org/ is making a free hardware cpu board about 2 – 5 times the performance of the raspberry pi.
When for sale, will it then be possible to build a 2, 4 or 8 cpu core, what ever it takes, free mainboard with the performance of an intel duo core notebook mainboard, assuming that gpu, wifi, display, etc also are free hardware?
it looks like the CPU is really free at the HDL level, while most commercial CPUs do not provide that level of freedom. This looks like an opt-out for non-free microcode that runs on a CPU. In this case we have free microcode that can run on a FPGA, but the tools to create a bistring are nonfree. It is important to write a free software FPGA toolchain, if we really want free freedom at the lowest possible levels of hardware.
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