(2/2) OpenPOWER: Raptor Engineering sells POWER9 workstations, that may soon be getting RYF certification. They're expensive as fuck, but probably the most powerful non-botnet computers that exist. Comparable to Xeons/Epyc. raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
Ted Ts'o asked if there were any ARM Chromebooks that could be used as development machines; Paul answered that the ones based on Rockchip SoCs were close. Torvalds asked about the status of the Mali GPU driver; Bergmann responded that there had been one person working on reverse-engineering that device, but he didn't work well with other developers. Now somebody else is making progress with the older GPUs, but nobody is working on current-generation devices. It was said that everybody within ARM is in favor of solving the problem by open-sourcing ARM's driver — except for one recalcitrant high-level manager.
Torvalds said that, if the Mali problem could be solved, the community as a whole would be in good shape. Bergmann said that there are currently four ARM GPUs with good free-software support, but they are all older. Going forward, Mali seems to be the GPU of choice for Android devices, so that is the problem that needs to be solved. Lemarchand said that pressure is being applied from the Android side as well.
>it's happening
Jason Young
HOLY SHIT!
If that happens, then ARM Chromebooks will be an excellent choice for laptops.
Also speaking of ARM, does anyone know of some implementations of Cavium's ARM processors? 48 cores at 2.5GHz sounds incredible as well
Elijah Gray
Also, link added to the list
Ethan Rivera
bump
Juan Sanders
Brainlet here. Could someone provide quick implication of this?
Connor Fisher
ARM is one of the architectures that we can move to to get away from the x86 botnet. Many Chromebooks use ARM, and we can reflash the firmware relatively easily to allow ChromeOS to be wiped and regular GNU/Loonix to be installed. However, most of these devices use a Mali GPU, which has a closed-source driver and no good libre alternative This article is saying that it is likely that we will see this driver opened up, as everyone in ARM thinks it's a good idea except for just one manager guy. With this driver opened up, reflashed chromebooks become a great choice for a laptop
Luis Wright
Thank you user. That sounds great.
Jackson Baker
>hrt
Carson Miller
>pro/g/ramming socks board
Mason Cook
Options for i5 and i7 x220s? I heard coreboot might be possible but not sure if that's enough to fully "transition" with thinkpad HRT therapy
Isaiah Thompson
Is the x220 librebooted yet?
Jacob Garcia
Coreboot is possible on the X220, however this does not get rid of the intel ME. Minifree (a libreboot thinkpad seller actually owned by the libreboot project) had a page up talking about figuring out a hack to get the X220 librebooted, but they said they'd be done by the end of this year and the year's almost over, so who knows.
Isaac Campbell
Fantastic. I'll wait and see how this goes for when I upgrade my laptop.
This T60 is starting to show its age in a few places.
William Parker
One user in a previous version of this thread showed off his Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it could actually handle XFCE without the graphics driver. With Mali freed, it will be able to handle more.
Michael Flores
coreboot+me_cleaner?
Leo Turner
Especially when Wayland becomes accepted. Even things like the Pi responds well to Wayland.
William Watson
Got some questions on wayland: Can the clipboard be shared between Wayland and X applications? Is there a compositor-independent way of doing that red-tinting thing at night? How's the performance of something like Sway compared to X TWMs?
Luis Harris
bumpity bump
Luke Edwards
I don't know to be honest. It's GPU reliance makes using it on my T60 a pointless endeavour.
Asher Anderson
>It's GPU reliance makes using it on my T60 a pointless endeavour. >Even things like the Pi responds well to Wayland. so wait the T60 is literally less powerful than the Pi?
