From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <9e253288-3eef-413a-b2cc-aa5310770846n@googlegroups.com>,   
   muta...@gmail.com  wrote:   
   >On Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 9:18:59 AM UTC+8, Dan Cross wrote:   
   >   
   >> >Again - copyright covers a work of art. Not an   
   >> >architectural concept. Patents could cover the later.   
   >> >But 20 years have passed.   
   >   
   >> You should probably take a law course focusing on intellectual   
   >> property before assuming that.   
   >   
   >I'm not "assuming" anything. It's my understanding.   
   >   
   >[snip]   
   >   
   >Or I can save my money and see if you can present the   
   >opinion of a qualified attorney and/or court judgements.   
   >   
   >Even if you do do that, that's just one lawyer and judge's   
   >opinion.   
      
   Meh.  Your legal opinion seems about as mature as your technical   
   opinions.   
      
   >[snip]   
   >> >Ok, so the proposed laptop could be built, and cover both   
   >> >memory-mapped I/O and "legacy IO".   
   >   
   >> That would be a silly design if your intent is to work with a   
   >> CPU that doesn't even have programmed IO instructions, let alone   
   >> the sort of external bus cycles required for PIO to work.   
   >   
   >The intent is to allow the user to zap either CPU type   
   >onto the FPGA.   
      
   Now you're back to the original problem of trying to shoehorn a   
   MIPS core into a system designed around an x86 core, or the   
   inverse, which is what I already told you was problematic.   
      
   >> What you want doesn't exist, and you have to actually have a lot   
   >> of real knowledge to build such a thing. Building a laptop   
   >> style system around an FPGA is non-trivial; certainly not the   
   >> type of thing a hobbyist with no domain knowledge is up to.   
   >   
   >I'm not sure where you got the idea I intended to   
   >build it myself. The whole purpose of buying a   
   >pre-made laptop is so that I don't have to build   
   >it myself.   
      
   Meh.  What you're asking for does not exist and those that are   
   capable of building such a thing aren't interested in doing so,   
   so it's all moot.   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
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