Purism Aims To Build A Philosophically Pure Laptop
What, the circuitry only has one state, "true" ? As Drew would say, "PDCS" ! --dave On 01/24/2015 03:12 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
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On 2015-01-24 03:12 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
But but but … the Intel processor is full of microcode blobs! (Didn't some folks used to advocate running a MIPS-based thingy which was entirely open source, down to the processor microcode?) cheers, Stewart
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 06:05:43PM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
On 2015-01-24 03:12 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
But but but … the Intel processor is full of microcode blobs!
Yes I think every modern x86 has a ton of microsode because it is running x86 on a RISC like core. No one would build a modern high performance cpu that runs x86 natively. Too messy.
(Didn't some folks used to advocate running a MIPS-based thingy which was entirely open source, down to the processor microcode?)
That ought to work. ARM probably would too, at least some models. -- Len Sorensen
On 2015-01-26 03:04 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
That ought to work. ARM probably would too, at least some models.
Remembered what it was: the Loongson-based MIPS laptops. RMS used to use one. They sounded amazingly slow. If you can live with x86 and are adventurous, LibreBoot has an open BIOS for the Thinkpad X200: http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/x200.html cheers, Stewart
Here's Linux Unplugged discussing the laptop -- http://youtu.be/OaZxKTR_f1M?t=37m10s On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne@gmail.com> wrote:
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