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Unfortunately hardware can’t exist anymore without software. Everything non-trivial needs firmware or microcode. And depending on others to write firmware for
by andruby 11mo ago
Unfortunately hardware can’t exist anymore without software. Everything non-trivial needs firmware or microcode.
And depending on others to write firmware for your hardware, I don’t think that’s a recipe for success.
- amelius 11mo agoSoftware team at AMD to hardware team at AMD: "Give us the hardware with the docs then we will write software for it" Hardware team at AMD: "Sorry, hardware can't exist without software; we'll first have to write the software" Software team: "But we're the software team ..." Hardware team: "Uhm yeah ... seems we have a nasty chicken and egg problem here"