Making an FSF Endorseable Mass-volume Embedded Processor
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This sounds interesting. Relaity, fiction, or something inbetween I don't know:
http://lkcl.net/articles/fsf_endorseable_processor.html
The goal:
To bring into production a mass-volume high-performance processor with:
modern interfaces (SATA-II, Gigabit Ethernet, USB3)
modern capabilities (3D Graphics and 1080p30 Video Decode)
no DRM
that is guaranteed at all times to be:
100% documented
100% software-programmable
and 100% supported by Free Software licensed toolchains
and requiring no proprietary libraries of any kind, all the
way from boot-up, right through to the applications level.
The Target markets:
Laptops
Tablets
Desktop systems
Open Educational Computing
Scientific Cluster-computing (8-core @ 800mhz gives an
estimated raw performance of 38 GFLOPS, in only 2.7 Watts)
Low to mid range Games Consoles
IP TV Boxes
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I believe an existing project called OpenCores aims to make a free CPU architecture. However I think it is more geared towards embedded applications, but it is still an interesting project nonetheless.
How wonderful would it be to have a completely liberated computer, even down to the microcode, running truly 100% free software. I guess the closest we've got is the Arduino, but that’s obviously a far cry from a high performance processor.
On 05/12/12 01:14, name at domain wrote:
> I believe an existing project called OpenCores aims to make a free CPU
> architecture. However I think it is more geared towards embedded
> applications, but it is still an interesting project nonetheless.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3293991&cid=42182169
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