On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 04:25:36AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.sifive.com/products/risc-v-core-ip/u54-mc/ > > > > What can we expect from this cpu? > > There is no gpu, you cannot get a board which has a display port? > > yeh bizarre, isn't it? they basically expect you to use its external > bus to connect a (expensive) FPGA to, do the conversion to > something-or-other, and to connect an HDMI interface or RGB/TTL > interface etc. etc. yourself, implementing the display logic in a > hybrid of software-plus-FPGA. > > or do connect a standard graphics card via PCIe. > > each of which is an awful lot of work / money. > > now, if *they* created a dev-kit which had that already *done*.... > then... great! > > l.
If they have ethernet you could connect from another computer that does have graphics using X. This doesn't make it *totally* useless. It could be used in a headless server, for example -- a place where you might need to avoid built-in spyware. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
