Hi all,

it would be a big chance for huawei to show the US monopoly that they can do without them. Have a RiscV CPU and an open source GPU (is there anything better than vga with bit blit as open source verilog?) Also having a fully open source lineage os would be an asset. When they throw money on open source projects I would consider buying from them as one gets a spyware free phone. I doubt that huawei builds in backdoors as cisco does. The nsa is based in the usa and china does not have anything in knowing my date with the dentist. While google and the nsa is nosy about such data. So I would trust huawei more than cisco and google.

So having a more open source huawei company and a huawei lineage os phone with risc V would be a strong asset for the open source movement.

Cheers

Ludwig

On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, Hagen SANKOWSKI hsank@posteo.de wrote:

Hello List.

I guess, soon Huawei phones doesn't contain ARM CPUs anymore ;-)

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635326/huawei-arm-chip-designs-business...

I am very curious, whether they are using RISC-V or MIPS instead.

BTW, ARM is a subsidiary of Softbank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group) - a Japanese Company.. _______________________________________________ Libre-silicon-devel mailing list Libre-silicon-devel@list.libresilicon.com http://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libre-silicon-devel

On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 14:16 +0200, ludwig jaffe wrote:

Hi all,

it would be a big chance for huawei to show the US monopoly that they can do without them. Have a RiscV CPU and an open source GPU (is there anything better than vga with bit blit as open source verilog?) Also having a fully open source lineage os would be an asset. When they throw money on open source projects I would consider buying from them as one gets a spyware free phone. I doubt that huawei builds in backdoors as cisco does. The nsa is based in the usa and china does not have anything in knowing my date with the dentist. While google and the nsa is nosy about such data. So I would trust huawei more than cisco and google.

I personally wouldn't trust Huawei any more I would trust Cisco at-all or the NSA, and I did work for CISCO and other US companies where we did get visits from (literally) man in black requesting "specific features".

It will be interesting if Huawei will chose an Open Source path, or create a internal closed alternative. Since Android OS is open source, I would suspect they will continue using that and just replace the proprietary Google apps with their own. As to hardware, I would suspect they will create their own, closed variety, most likely based on RISC-V.

So having a more open source huawei company and a huawei lineage os phone with risc V would be a strong asset for the open source movement.

Cheers

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On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, ludwig jaffe ludwig.jaffe@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

it would be a big chance for huawei to show the US monopoly that they can do without them. Have a RiscV CPU and an open source GPU (is there anything better than vga with bit blit as open source verilog?)

Will be within estimated 1 year. https://libre-riscv.org/3d_gpu/ check it tomorrow, though, mythic beasts had to do an emergency hardware replacement

Also having a fully open source lineage os would be an asset. When they throw money on open source projects I would consider buying from them as one gets a spyware free phone. I doubt that huawei builds in backdoors as cisco does.

I am applying for a 2nd grant to create formal mathematic correctness proofs of the hardware. This will have the fascinating side effect that independent verification of the design's total lack of spyware backdoors can be mathematically proven.

The nsa is based in the usa and china does not have anything in knowing my date with the dentist. While google and the nsa is nosy about such data. So I would trust huawei more than cisco and google.

So having a more open source huawei company and a huawei lineage os phone with risc V would be a strong asset for the open source movement.

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