Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > Werner himself and his unstoppable drive and inspiration. So I
Heh, thanks, but that's not entirely fair to a number of people, including yourself. What we can say with certainty is that activity and enthusiasm have greatly diminished. Qi-Hw has changed from a place where people go because something exciting is happening (or where they at least expect it to happen any moment) to a place they go because it has become a habit. > The TI idea would lead me away from all of those, I quite strongly disagree with this view. If the last few years of Qi-Hw have shown anything, it's that you can't thrive on a starvation diet. It's pretty irrelevant if you're all set up to slay the dragon and bed the princess next week if you die of hunger today. So if a company was willing to finance a Nanonote successor project around chips that are reasonably open, and thus breathe new life into our effort, I'd be more than willing to join the effort. You've expressed a dislike for TI for a long time, but I still fail to see the reason. Maybe it's a legacy from the good times we had at Openmoko ? PowerVR is evil, of course, and it's sad that TI still throw their support behind it, but if you don't make your product depend on this sort of acceleration, it's only a relatively minor nuisance to have it around, turned off and ignored by us. For the rest of the SoC features, I don't see any "traps" in TI's chips. And I rather like the fact that I can find quite comprehensive and well-written technical documentation within mere seconds, instead of having to sift through dozens of rather unsavoury sites in the hope to find some scraps that let me puzzle out how the critter in question works. Having said that, I found Ingenic documentation decent enough. But it's sad - and somewhat insulting - that, after all those years, we still can't just point people to an official place where they can download it. - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
