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Have a look at this and stop spouting nonsense.

You sound like Billy Gates a couple of years ago, as he said "Ummm. Kernel, that's easy. But the Open Source[1] movement won't ever be able to come up with something as complex as a web browser" -- this was a couple of years before Mozilla wiped the floor with his Internet Explorer.

Idiots gotta idiot. I guess.

Remember: there's already one RiscV on silicon out there (SiFive), and the other one (much more ambitious) is not far, judging by the people behind it and their commitment.

If you buy this device, Intel still owns it due to the binary blobs that are required to run things. The future will be open hardware; support RISC-V projects, like this one.

Oh cry me an open source river.

If you buy this device, Intel still owns it due to the binary blobs that are required to run things. The future will be open hardware; support RISC-V projects, like this one.

What is the OS of choice that Intel uses for this card?

More interestingly, these are the guys behind RISC-V, the first royalty-free modern and forward-thinking ISA (instruction set architecture); the instruction set is designed to be modular, and it supports standardized implementations from this low-level kind of microcontroller all the way up to 128-bit (yes, that's right) general purpose or highly parallel computing.

It has a lot of industry support, and a commuting of very zealous tinkerers, who are working on all manner of open-source implementations of this open and royalty-free ISA.

If you buy this device, Intel still owns it due to the binary blobs that are required to run things. The future will be open hardware; support RISC-V projects, like this one.

I googled this and found this from an OGML discussion going on about this GPU. There are some screenshots and even a youtube video.

Since 2010, Jeff Bush (github, blog) has been working on an Apache-licensed open source GPU (github, home page, wiki), and he has a few other interesting github projects as well (link, link, link). The Nyuzi Processor is a fully functional GPU. It is written in synthesizable Verilog, has a functional compiler toolchain, and comes with test suites, benchmarks, the software component of 3D rendering engine, and more. Its development has been gaining momentum in discussions (link, link, Google Group) and coding projects (gsoc). It has been implemented on an Altera FPGA, and there are some videos online of it animating a rotating teapot and a Phong-shaded torus, along with the results of recently-added mipmap support. Recently, Jeff Bush got together with the founder of the Open Graphics Project, and they co-wrote a peer-reviewed publication about this GPU and some experiments they did, which was recently presented at a well-respected academic CS conference (ISPASS). Although its developer and other hobbyists are doing this for fun, academics and engineers who specialize in GPU architecture are already showing interest in using Nyuzi for their own research (e.g. link, link), which gives them finally an open platform to estimate not just cycle count but also clock frequency, energy, and circuit area effects of GPU design experiments.

First of all, thanks for all of your amazing contributions to free software and free culture movements in general.

I would like to hear your opinion about projects to create free hardware, in particular CPUs like the OpenRISC and RISC-V, or projects striving to create full systems respecting the GPL and without binary blobs like Rhombus Tech's EOMA or lowrisc, or any other that you might know that goes beyond refurbishing existing computers.

In the case that you hold a favourable opinion, I also would like to know if the FSF is in touch (even informally) with any of the teams behind these projects and plan to support them in any way (other than accepting changes to GNU software so it can run in these systems), e.g. by working with them from early on to ensure that they can later be endorsed by Respects Your Freedom.

> Cool. Someone found us the agenda!

And (I guess *you* know that, but perhaps others don't) one of those "someones" is David Patterson (of Hennesy and Patterson fame). I guess those RISC-V folks really know what they're doing.

Besides, the lowRISC effort is on its way to actually provide silicon to carry RISC-V, no FPGA, but "real".

Good times ahead!

and http://www.lowrisc.org/

Link, please?

Sorry it was a RISC not a MIPS http://www.lowrisc.org/

You seem knowledgeable on the subject - are any projects listed on OpenCores sufficient?

no sadly most are crap by modern standards or incomplete.