IBM ThinkPad edition. As usual, the old one hit 400 posts again.
ThinkPad (and Toughbook) thread
Easton Kelly
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Chase Smith
Fully riced W530 + ESP-950
Christopher James
Ethan Morgan
ThinkPad, ThinkPad, ThinkPad
I'm tired of this shit. There are only two things cool about them - their longevity and that some models have bugs which make it possible to turn off ME, but besides that, they're botnet made by a botnet loving company. How long are we going to use this thing?
I hope EOMA68 will become the new thinkpad, libre by design.
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Jackson Thompson
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Angel Miller
This. However, things aren't looking good for ARM either.
There is a freedom problem with SOC design where everything IP licenced (eg: memory controller, PCIE, SATA). This is especially true for ARM, a fab-less company. RISC-V is not going to help for the same reason. It is going to be licencing hell and proprietary instruction set extension.
Nevertheless, until Zig Forums managed to diy CPU. A20 and i.mx6 are the best bet.
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Easton Flores
It is hell, but Luke (the main dev) is an experienced developer and he has a plan, for example he reuses old, long ago expired patents and standards crowdsupply.com
Matthew Harris
A....are they everything they say they are? $1,000 seems like a lot for audio. They must be pretty fancy.
Thomas Thompson
user, it's not just about whether the dev open source his design or not. The problem is when the instruction set and other components are much botnetted. In that case, compiler and software design would be extremely difficult.
Yes, it is possible to create a libre CPU based on RISC-V. However, the current demand for libre hardware is not enough to turn the table with big brothers designs. Not saying it should not be done though.