On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Eric Nelson wrote: > I'm not aware of any open-source silicon, but ARM processors in > general tend to be well-documented because lots of O/S's are ported > to them.
Until anyone with a fab can manufacture ARM Ltd designs without fee I wouldn't consider ARM Ltd CPUs "open source". Sure, 100% of the software running on the CPU may be open source but that doesn't make a "100% open source computer", for that you need much more. Some movements towards that exist for other CPU architectures, most of them are running on FPGAs rather than actual ASICs so far. http://opencores.org/ http://openrisc.net/ http://opencores.org/donation http://m-labs.hk/ http://www.ohwr.org/projects/lm32 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/ Interestingly there was an ARM based tablet that planned to use an OpenRISC chip for the embedded controller. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pengpod-1040-quad-core-linux-android-dual-booting-tablets -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6Gi1eT3JPBbnCQ6NJ_JFSr0EMaxL-1Pp+_BPZ0D=jo...@mail.gmail.com
