From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GTOqd-0007QU-I6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:20:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8TKHIbj013497; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:17:18 GMT Received: from omx2.sgi.com (omx2-ext.sgi.com [192.48.171.19]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8TKHGq2009407 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:17:17 GMT Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by omx2.sgi.com (8.12.11/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id k8TMsXrL007098 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:54:33 -0700 Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [163.154.22.110]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id k8TKHFeD54495883 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8TKHEXK220915 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rsanders@localhost) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id k8TKHE1w217217 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:17:14 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) Message-ID: <20060929201714.GA219727@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org References: <20060929182529.GA571@crowfix.com> <20060929192312.GA220874@sgi.com> <20060929195513.GA10728@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060929195513.GA10728@crowfix.com> Organization: SGI, Mountain View, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: bb21f2bf-5268-425c-8e82-fdd6fb77ae2b X-Archives-Hash: a5851c732570a95f069b819dab78098f felix@crowfix.com, mused, then expounded: > > I have long had a fantasy of sorts of someone coming out with a > generic processor taht could be reconfigured on the fly -- of coming > up with my own instruction set for it, so a custom gcc backend could > produce code for it, and it would be immune to all malware which > depends on the specific instruction set. Even, at moments, thinking > of having permutations of the instructions every few months, just to > ad variety to things. I had brief moments of interest in Transmeta > for just that reason, but they quickly disappeared. > Well, not generic, but in the same spirit, it can plug into an AMD 940 pin cpu socket. And one has two vendors to choose from - http://www.drccomputer.com/ http://www.xtremedatainc.com/ Not exactly cheap to get into, and it doesn't use gcc as it's VHDL. So, maybe too restrictive, but it's re-configurable and 1 or more,, up to 7 can theoretically be used in an 8 socket AMD based platform. Interestingly enough, both companies development stations come with Linux as the os. Bob - -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list