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Re:Building a RISC-V PC by ChickeNES on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:35PM (#19119337)
IIRC, the original RasPi SoC was intended for a Nokia smartphone that was cancelled
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Re:Building a RISC-V PC by dfox on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:24PM (#19120303)
The original RPi SoC was intended for DVRs and set-top-boxes and maybe as application CPU in midrange TVs. The design with huge-ish video accelerator and highly battery unfriendly power requirements is totally unappropriate for anything mobile, even less for anything designed by Nokia with their full-custom PMICs with internal ARM cores and so o on...
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Re:Building a RISC-V PC by pjc50 on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:07PM (#19119517)
I thought it was for set-top-boxes; that's why it's mostly video decode with a small ARM to run the menus.
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Re:Building a RISC-V PC by makomk on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:19PM (#19119594)
Yup. Some models of Roku apparently even shipped with the SoC used in the original Raspberry Pi.
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Re:Building a RISC-V PC by EvanAnderson on Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:25AM (#19120933)
Check out this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12745506
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