@mntmn the serial changes, do these mean a way to connect over usb-c for the u-boot? If not, I think an external facing port for u-boot would be useful. On my original CPU module, I tried a few flavors of OS, but on my A311D, I’ve stuck to Debian with your repos, it’s easier than trying to figure out what I messed up on with the u-boot TTL serial headers being right in the middle of the machine. Also, some easy way to connect for programming the keyboard and mouse externally.
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Min1123 (min1123@allthingstech.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 20:58:02 JST Min1123 @mntmn ARM maintains the ISA, but they have two license models.
The cheaper one gives a company access to particular predefined cores and other components to use in their chips. These interchangeable blocks have forced the blocks to be low-wattage jack-of-all-trades.
The architecture license means the produced chips have to conform to the ISA, but the ISA -> uOPs can be completely custom. Apple left out all 32-bit ISA, and added custom accelerators and tuning. Same engineers.