Ben CPU question

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:52:05 -0700

This is a question about the whole Ben system, not really the CPU. It has been said that the Ben is not Free, and perhaps it is not in the sense that the Soc cannot be remanufactured. But surely it must be a little free, otherwise we could not have as a community added hardware acceleration to ogg's right? Is Qi talking about freedom in the 100% copyleft hardware sense and not the sense that the specifications of the system to program it are available? There has got to be a reason so many people are seeing the Ben as a fit and worthy platform for free hacking so it should not be as bad as x686 for example? For software hackers is the Ben as Free as it gets? I heard that Wolfgang acquired rights to the MIPS soc? 

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