On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Aharon Robbins <arn...@skeeve.com> wrote:
> I understand all your points, and many of them are good ones. But there > really are places where you don't want to go, and into the chipset > is one of them. Not really the case. People do want to go there, so they can do interesting things like put an FPGA into a CPU socket. Non-x86 vendors in the embedded space don't say things like " there really are places where you don't want to go" in my experience. Just look at the fact that so many ARM-based boards use U-boot -- GPL'ed firmware. That's why so much of the really cool stuff at various conferences nowadays usually involves non-x86 embedded systems -- you can do interesting things there you can't do in the x86 world any more -- things you used to see done on x86es now get done on other systems. ron
