From 6a9a19ce970ef64cd9de2f9cba2ccb93b454cf3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: manili Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:40:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu.mdwn b/shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu.mdwn index 05ecef8ea..2116ba3d0 100644 --- a/shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu.mdwn +++ b/shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu.mdwn @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ As I mention in the above page, one of the problems with doing a completely sepa Will that approach work? Honestly I have absolutely no idea, but it would be a fascinating and extremely ambitious research project. -Can we get people to fund it? Yeah I do. there's a lot of buzz about RISC-V, and a lot of buzz can be created about a libre 3D GPU. If that same GPU happens to be good at doing crypto-currency mining there will be a LOT more attention paid, particularly given that people have noticed that relying on proprietary GPUs and CPUs to manage billions of dollars worth of crypto-currency, when the NSA is *known* to have blackmailed intel into putting a spying back-door co-processor in to x86, and that it miiight not be a good idea to trust proprietary hardware +Can we get people to fund it? Yeah I do. there's a lot of buzz about RISC-V, and a lot of buzz can be created about a libre 3D GPU. If that same GPU happens to be good at doing crypto-currency mining there will be a LOT more attention paid, particularly given that people have noticed that relying on proprietary GPUs and CPUs to manage billions of dollars worth of crypto-currency, when the NSA is *known* to have blackmailed intel into putting a spying back-door co-processor in to x86, and that it miiight not be a good idea to trust proprietary hardware: -- 2.30.2