On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >> ah that's a misunderstanding, paul. what neal (bless 'im) is >> referring to there is the fact that the A31 has *inside the Silicon >> design* an early version of the OR1000 core, which is run at a very >> low clock speed and is used to manage the chip when everything else is >> powered down in "sleep state". > > Sounds similar to what I mean by "embedded controller",
... yeah. that's a good description. > which is a term I'm only familiar with from the x86 hardware space. anything these days that's an 8086 (or more usually an 8051) is... yeah. you'd be surprised - no, more like stunned - how many appliances are based around the 8051 instruction set. CMOS camera chips, touchscreen controllers. ARM's got into this area with the Cortex M0, M3 and M4 licensable designs. > Only > difference about the A31 is that it is part of the SoC rather than > external. Thanks for the clarification and extra detail. no problem > http://www.coreboot.org/Embedded_controller > >> let's just hope the Allwinner had the good sense to realise that if >> they made any modifications to that OR1000 core they have to respect >> the LGPL license that OR1000 is released under, eh? > > The LGPL specifically allows private modifications ... you sure about that? :) > and physical hardware isn't copyrightable augh. ahh that's what Design Rights are for... hmmm... i wonder if that's the solution to being able to apply the GPL and LGPL to hardware... sorry this is off-topic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/capweedzuwwsx8g4g8jqgqzn-zobujvoc8ikancy0yj2+qb3...@mail.gmail.com
