[libre-riscv-dev] new update for crowdsupply soc, 22 2020feb14

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 3:14 PM Immanuel, Yehowshua U
<yimmanuel3 at gatech.edu> wrote:
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> Looks pretty good.

good.

> Yeah - we need to put a page kindly explaining why we can’t use RISCV…

really don't want to: i'd like to leave it behind and move forward.
the update(s) - not being on the libresoc domain - can serve that
purpose.

> > More on this later, however it became clear to us that we need good
> > 180<https://git.libre-riscv.org/?p=crowdsupply.git;a=blob;f=updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn;hb=HEAD#l180> "communicators".  Not so much more "programmers”,
>
> Yep. On it!

:)

> > 221<https://git.libre-riscv.org/?p=crowdsupply.git;a=blob;f=updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn;hb=HEAD#l221> Given that the U.S. Trade War has recently caused a whopping
> > 222<https://git.libre-riscv.org/?p=crowdsupply.git;a=blob;f=updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn;hb=HEAD#l222> **twelve percent** drop in
> > 223<https://git.libre-riscv.org/?p=crowdsupply.git;a=blob;f=updates/022_2020feb14_openpower_eula_released.mdwn;hb=HEAD#l223> [ASIC sales]
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> Haha - as somebody in the U.S., I’m glad to see this working out to our advantage…

it's hilarious, isn't it?  the whole point was to *increase* trade...