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Re:A smaller, cheaper RISC V board by zokier on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @04:43PM (#15288632)
Overall I think it would be neat to see a "hackable" (2D) video controller emerge too. There are quite a lot of "small systems" that could use with an easy way to get decent video out (practically speaking HDMI, or maybe DP).
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Re:A smaller, cheaper RISC V board by rjsw on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:27PM (#15289620)
A display controller that can drive HDMI and a 2D graphics accelerator are different things. They just both work from the same framebuffer in a SoC's memory.
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Re:A smaller, cheaper RISC V board by dom0 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:17PM (#15288894)
A special chip isn't really needed for this, an FPGA can do all of the above (with the correct bitstream)
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Re:A smaller, cheaper RISC V board by zokier on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:37PM (#15289049)
Fpga, discrete asic, or on-die on soc, that's just implementation detail. Of course I'd expect the first iterations to be fpga based, that's almost unavoidable these days.
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