From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263720AbTDXOsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:48:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263723AbTDXOsF (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:48:05 -0400 Received: from havoc.daloft.com ([64.213.145.173]:57535 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263720AbTDXOsD (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:48:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:00:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Linus Torvalds Cc: John Bradford , Jamie Lokier , William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! Message-ID: <20030424150012.GA5993@gtf.org> References: <200304240816.h3O8GGrH000399@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 07:45:16AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, John Bradford wrote: > > Incidently, using the Transmeta CPUs, is it not possible for the user > > to replace the controlling software with their own code? I.E. not > > bother with X86 compatibility at all, but effectively design your own > > CPU? Couldn't we make the first Lin-PU this way? > If open hardware is what you want, FPGA's are actually getting to the > point where you can do real CPU's with them. They won't be gigahertz, and Yep. Check out http://www.opencores.org/ At least one CPU there already can boot Linux. I'm waiting for the day, in fact, when somebody will use the OpenCores tech to build an entirely open system... They seem to have most of the pieces done already, though I dunno how applicable Wishbone technology is to PC-like systems. Jeff