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Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ... by ilyt on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:11PM (#35702454)
It's weird how much hype is around it considering about only advantage of it is "now corporations don't have to pay central entity for ISA".
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Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ... by joezydeco on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:56PM (#35703259)
Because we all dream of sub-$1 Linux processors that boot freely without blobs and have loads of wonderful usable documentation.

I kind of want to modify that old adage to now read "cheap, open, documented. You can pick two."

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Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ... by opan on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:59PM (#35705869)
If you picked cheap and documented, chances are it's documented primarily in Chinese also.
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Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ... by joezydeco on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @09:20PM (#35708737)
And it's already discontinued.
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Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ... by ilyt on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:10AM (#35725295)
If it is actually cheap and open, documentation generally gets done if product lives long enough
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