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CHIP Kickstarter
Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 12:04 am
by dulsi
I'm probably going to join
this kickstarter. The pocket chip would be an inexpensive portable machine to run btbuilder on. Probably have to fix the loading/saving of BTCS files as I believe it assumes little endian which I don't believe is correct for ARM.
Re: CHIP Kickstarter
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 12:32 am
by sombunall
Has some problems:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/0 ... nding-goal
allwinner is a big time gpl violator
No, it is not open. No, it is not $9.
Re: CHIP Kickstarter
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 2:52 pm
by dulsi
That is annoying. I've asked the kickstarter if they will use the standard kernel or require some potentially violating code.
Re: CHIP Kickstarter
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 3:20 am
by dragonbait
CHIP does look interesting though. SOmetime in the future people will have much more complicated and powerful yet incredibly smaller chips installed in their brains. Won't need a keyboard or controller, nor CD's or USB's. But the master control will rule all humankind. Slaves to the machines!
Re: CHIP Kickstarter
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:14 am
by dulsi
Their latest update provides information about the GPL violations of Allwinner. The CHIP will have some binary blobs to use some functionality but most code will be merged into the mainline. Allwinner is also working to fix GPL violations.