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Originally posted by AndyChow View PostHaven't we been platform agnostic for a long time? Be careful what you wish for. Upper management might decide to sponsor Java all over again. But seriously, the explosion of options are just a return to the past. Risc, Mips, Cisc, Vax, Power, Sparc, Itanium. There has historically been plenty of architecture options.
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Originally posted by DrYak View PostBecause community devs doing the reverse engineering don't have magic wands and there's only so much that they can do without having access to actual documentation but having to rely instead on guessing using dumps ? (In general, small problem will take much longer to get ironed out)
Originally posted by DrYak View PostBecause there are no longterm devs on a payroll specially dedicated to this driver, but instead only community devs doing bits of improvement here and there when they have some spare time left from their normal food-paying day jobs ?
Originally posted by DrYak View PostJust look at nouveau
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Originally posted by DrYak View Post
So the guys who eventually added a hidden ARM core to their Ryzen CPUs to run some signed blob frimware with ring -3 access to everything, in order not to be left out of the Intel ME/AMT shitfest, are teaming with the guys who make ARM chipsets where the baseband modem acts as the chipset's north-bridge while running blobs that legally have to be written only by special license-holder ?
So you're piling closed blobs upon closed blobs ? What could possibly go wrong...
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Originally posted by Hadrian View Post
We here are using Ubuntu Linux for ARM (Raspberry Pi3) daily as desktop machines since several years, and it's basically identical to our Ubuntu for x86 machines, i.e. no apps missing,
Do you have any calculations, how much time users just burn on waiting on some compute? Because usually make sense for employer to spend money at stronger HW, because people with it can do more work with same effort.. Otherwise we would have everywhere just cheap Pentiums or old AMD CPUs.
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Originally posted by ruthan View PostDo you have any calculations, how much time users just burn on waiting on some compute? Because usually make sense for employer to spend money at stronger HW, because people with it can do more work with same effort.. Otherwise we would have everywhere just cheap Pentiums or old AMD CPUs.
Also for my evening leisure tasks a Pi3 is fine, but indeed for IT day work I use a faster machine than a Pi, for the reasons you mentioned.
So I'm very interested in these new powerful and current-saving ARM machines mentioned in Michael's article. I would any day replace my bloated x86 desktop machine with an ARM powered Linux one.
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Originally posted by DrYak View PostBecause community devs doing the reverse engineering don't have magic wands and there's only so much that they can do without having access to actual documentation but having to rely instead on guessing using dumps ? (In general, small problem will take much longer to get ironed out)
Because there are no longterm devs on a payroll specially dedicated to this driver, but instead only community devs doing bits of improvement here and there when they have some spare time left from their normal food-paying day jobs ?
Just look at nouveau - one of the hugest reverse engineering effort - that still sort-of works if you happen to have a chipset that matches one of those that the devs can test on, etc. but there are still weird bugs creeping on.
Vs. amdgpu which basically works, and if it doesn't (like some of the recent chips during the early time after their release) there actual devs paid to fix the problems ASAP.
I don't want to denigrate the efforts of the nouveau team. They are doing wonders given the circumstances.
But they are severly limited in what they can do due to lack of resources.
Now that you mention NVidia, there is actually an example for that company too, which is the forcedeth driver for the integrated Ethernet in NForce chipsets. NVidia originally released only their own proprietary ethernet driver.
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BGR is reporting that the Windows 10 gear running Snapdragon 835 is just a placeholder until the Snapdragon 845 is released next year. They are suggesting people hold off and not buy the units with the 835 and wait until the 845 is available.
The new processor is 25% more powerful than its predecessor, and graphics performance is up by 30%. These are relevant parameters, especially when talking about machines that should run Windows 10 apps. And there’s support for AR and VR features built into Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 platform, and we all know Microsoft is betting big on such experiences for the future of Windows 10.
Moreover, the chip comes with a new built-in Snapdragon X20 LTE modem that supports theoretical LTE speeds of up to 1.2Gbps. Wi-Fi speeds now support the 802.11ad standard, and there’s Bluetooth 5.0 support inside the 845.
The 845 is the basis for all of the next gen phones (ie: Galaxy/Note 9) and Samsung has been showing off a dock that allows one to run Win32 apps on their phone when it is docked.
Speaking of docked, Win32 app support on the 835/845 is being done via an app container using Hyper-V, similar to how Docker on Windows works.
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