Re: j-core vs RISC-V

On 05/10/2017 11:38 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 05/10/2017 01:38 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
>> Quoting Rob Landley (rob-VoJi6FS/[email protected]):
>>> What was his query?
>>
>> He asked:  'Do you think there is any chance to see large deployment of
>> Linux on a new architecture?'
>
> Short answer: on this one, yes.
>
> Long answer:
>
> 1) it's not a new architecture, it's a variant of an existing
> architecture. Running unmodified sh2 code was an explicit goal of the

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> Did that answer the question?

No, but your answer was interesting anyway.
I used the adjective "new" specifically, hoping you could share a 
privileged point of view.

> P.S. I think all this information and more was in the ELC talk I linked
> to? It's a bit crass advertise on a list like this, and doing too much
> pro/con arguing falls into that category if you ask me. But you did ask...

I read it but somehow I was more interested in the market rather than 
technical details.

There was just a slide about ubiquitous computing it didn't help that 
much to get a more complete idea.
Looking at your company web site gave definitively more clues about how 
you're using j-core. Still other than avoiding patents I don't get why 
you needed an open design or why it wouldn't have been easier and 
cheaper to use someone else ARM + some DSP and some analog sauce.

But I think this may get too technical for what I could appreciate and I 
may guess that probably it wouldn't have been fast enough. I doubt it's 
a question of cost.

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