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Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2

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Re: Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2

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The HDMI and DSP lines are crossed out. Does anyone know of they aren't supported on this chip vs the regular D1?

Likely a mistake in the spec list copied from the earlier intro article published in March. The chip has no DSP, HDMI or DVI blocks listed so it makes sense.

Re: Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2

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This chip looks similar to the F1C100s that was used in the $3 Linux business card: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c... By switching to RISC-V I guess Allwinner can save a few cents of Arm license fees.

Might be that they care about open computers.

Re: Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2

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post #2

This chip looks similar to the F1C100s that was used in the $3 Linux business card: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c... By switching to RISC-V I guess Allwinner can save a few cents of Arm license fees.

Might be that they care about open computers.

Maybe but from the way they violate the GPL license and keep distributing binary blobs for their hardware I'd go out on a limb and say the money angle is more likely.

Re: Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2

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post #2

This chip looks similar to the F1C100s that was used in the $3 Linux business card: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c... By switching to RISC-V I guess Allwinner can save a few cents of Arm license fees.

Might be that they care about open computers.

Allwinner? Maybe, but I highly doubt it. They're one of the worst offenders when it comes to releasing sources.[0]

[0] https://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations

Re: Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2

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post #4

The HDMI and DSP lines are crossed out. Does anyone know of they aren't supported on this chip vs the regular D1?

The second paragraph says:

> Besides the built-in RAM, Allwinner D1s comes with many of the same features as D1 RISC-V SoC, but loses HDMI output and the HiFi 4 audio DSP, and Allwinner made some tweaks to the IOs with one less I2S audio interface, and general-purpose ADC.

Re: Allwinner D1s/F133 RISC-V Processor Integrates 64MB DDR2

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post #2

This chip looks similar to the F1C100s that was used in the $3 Linux business card: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c... By switching to RISC-V I guess Allwinner can save a few cents of Arm license fees.

Might be that they care about open computers.

I doubt it. They have been found to be in violation of the GPL for years, ranging from media codecs to bootloaders. Their response, even after joining the Linux foundation, was to obfuscate the code to make GPL violations hard to find.
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