Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

Flemming Richter Mikkelsen quatrox at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 01:04:00 CEST 2008


On 6/5/08, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2008 18:05:47 Mark wrote:
> > Robert Schuster theBohemian at gmx.net wrote on Tue Jun 3 18:10:18 CEST
> > 2008
> >
> > >Hi.
> > >
> > >flexd schrieb:
> > >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) skrev:
> > >>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:12:30 -0400 "Lally Singh" <lally.singh at
> > >>> gmail.com> babbled:
> > >>>
> > >>> the day nvidia comes with open drivers for this... we can begin to take
> > >>> an interest :)
> > >>
> > >> To be honest, (i myself do not really care if the drivers are open or
> > >> not, i do not have the require level of geekyness to change them :p) i
> > >> couldnt care less if the drivers are open or not.
> > >>There are many reasons to have FOSS drivers. The ability for non-kernel
> > >>non-gfx people to change them is very low priority. But the kernel and
> > >>gfx people care much more.
> > >>
> > >> Aslong as we/someone could run a opensource OS on it, such as OM, i'd
> > >> love it!
> > >
> > >Yeah and for this a free/open driver is a precondition.
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >Robert
> >
> > If that were true, the Neo/Freerunner wouldn't exist. It's quite
> > obvious that for the foreseeable future some compromises are
> > unavoidable if you want a usable, worthwhile device.
>
> Not at all obvious to me.
>
> :M:

I agree with Michael. The only reason I want a Freerunner, is because
it is open.




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