On 06/24/2018 03:43 PM, Nico Huber wrote:
On 24.06.2018 21:37, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 06/24/2018 02:59 PM, ron minnich wrote:
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:47 AM Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschaefer@gmx.net wrote:
"While we’d love to provide you with this information, we believe we cannot. However, we can’t prevent anyone from disassembling the fsbl and copying the values sent to the blackbox DDR register map."
and ... there ends my interest in the hifive. A shame.
I can't understand what their target audience is? who would buy such a thing? who do they intend to sell these to? I mean the open source people can buy the now very affordable Talos 2L and the cheap-soc people can buy one of the many of ARM boards that litter the marketplace...I don't get it.
I don't think you can compare the HiFive Unleashed with the Talos. They really target completely different people and use cases. You could as well ask, why produce smart watches, when people can afford the Talos?
Talos is a workstation it doesn't fit anywhere but a workplace where somebody else pays the power bill. So you can't even compare it to cheap ARM SBCs, HiFive aside. It's a professional product, nothing to play with, but something to work with. And it's open. It is marketed as open. It is designed to be open. It is based on an open platform.
I just want to counter this one point. POWER9 is absolutely not power hungry. I've seen the 8-core chips idle at under 10W, with active loads maybe in the 40-60W range. We're dogfooding one machine in a typical office setting, and it dissipates nearly no heat -- it's using less power than the older Xeon it replaced.