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AMD Announces Ryzen 3000 Series Mobile Processors, 7th Gen A-Series For Chromebooks
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Originally posted by Adarion View PostNow if it came with a decent keyboard (keys, layout) and IPS full HD panel and some offline storage* it would be a very tempting offer. Not the big compiler power for something like Gentoo, but hey, should be already much better than my dated E-350 notebook.
*(no, Google, I will a) not put my data into your cloud b) not have any data I need somewhere spread over the world while I do not have inet on the road)
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Someone should make a Lignux hybrid as the $300 HP Chrome OS one but with M2 and $400 price plus a version with the 2400GE new equivalent in price, for $500 - $400 in box/desktop -
This 1080p Steam capable machine would be a great SOHO success as the Steam Machine with game console price that should have been back then.
And even 6w AMD APUs lignux phones
But not even lignux OEMs are interested.
PS: PSP - Platform Security Processor - kill switch is not still figured out
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I think M.2 on Chromebooks has gone away and will not return. Cost reasons, you know...
Also I think that AMD does not implement VP9 hardware acceleration for Stoney Ridge on Linux, so battery life will suck when playing back VP9 content on these Chromebooks.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View Postthe PSP can boot whatever the OEM sets it to, it can enforce board firmware signatures or not depending on what the OEM decides, just as with Intel ME
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Originally posted by moriel5 View PostThat much I already know, I had read something about not being able to port CoreBoot over to the newer AMD motherboards due to the PSP.
AFAIK there were complaints about the AGESA blobs (or the lack thereof) https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...o-Coreboot-ATM which are blobs required to initialize the actual hardware, similar to Intel FSP blobs.
Maybe what you read was simplifying saying "all hardware with PSP can't be ported to Coreboot", as that's more or less the hardware that AMD isn't providing AGESA blobs for, but it's not PSP's fault here.Last edited by starshipeleven; 08 January 2019, 03:27 AM.
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dungeon - I was talking about the Chromebook CPUs, since YouTube and Hangouts are something you expect to work well on Chromebooks. Sure, GPUs shipped with older x86 CPUs might not have supported VP9 hardware acceleration, but to really compete with ARM CPUs it's a must have.
Yes, the CPU might be powerful enough to decode, but it's still a big drain on battery life, and partial acceleration using the GPU is not as good as having full HW acceleration.
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