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It would be really nice to have Raspberry Pi-like developer board with this chip. At one point Qualcomm released full documentation for their SoCs, with a publi
by 127361 3y ago
It would be really nice to have Raspberry Pi-like developer board with this chip. At one point Qualcomm released full documentation for their SoCs, with a publicly available manual with near complete register documentation. I think it was for the APQ8064. It even included Adreno GPU registers and some GPS/WiFi baseband related stuff.
* An unfused SoC, so no secure boot etc. The Efuse VPP pin is tied to ground so no possibility of bricking it by blowing the fuses inadvertently.
* Fully open bootloader, e.g. U-Boot based.
* Mostly complete register documentation for the SoC, that would be good enough.
* Mainline Linux support.
Such a board would take the open source world by storm.
- wmf 3y agoAn X Elite board would probably be $500 though.
- snvzz 3y agoI would look at RISC-V instead. Competitive very high performance cores already available for licensing include SiFive P870, Ventana Veyron as well as Tenstorrent Ascalon or Alastor. We just need the SoC.
- user_7832 3y agoYes but then there's the question of software support. Arm supports android which has a huge ecosystem. And there are way more linux and other obscure/niche OSes which support arm like raspbian. If there was an easy way to run arm or x86 code on risk-v like rosetta that could help, but arm still has much better support than risk v.
- snvzz 3y agoBox64 supports RISC-V as host ISA. Refer to e.g. youtube to see it in action. I have personally used qemu-user, another solution, to run ARM binaries.