You mean the Linux distro that exists because it needs to contain broadcom drivers/blobs/etc that are under NDA?

I will never forget the hubub around the discovery that everything you typed on android went to a root shell. "What should I do?"... "reboot" phone reboots

Yes, the gravatons are the AWS arm architecture instances

Thanks, so "standard" ARM we can launch VMs with? I wasn't sure if this was some sort of proprietary ARM chip use for specialized work.

As far as I'm aware- if it's called an ARM CPU it's either the v7 or v8 instruction set with the possibility of extra instructions (changes to ARM die) or a tightly integrated coprocessor (via AXI bus, adjacent to the ARM silicon on the same substrate).

There are different Coretex series that optimize for different things- A and X for applications (phones, cloud compute, SBCs, desktops and laptops), M for microcontrollers, and R for realtime.

This doesn't apply if the company has an ARM founder and/or architecture license. (I think that's what they're called) Eg- Apple and their M series SOCs are not Coretex cores, but share the base instruction set- but only if Apple wants it to.

Yup, Amazon supports the 6.11? kernel on aarch64. Most toolchains if you target linux aarch64 static they, they will produce executables that will run on Amazon Linux aarch64 and Android, set-top boxes with 64-bit chips and Linux 3+ it's surprising how many devices a static aarch64 ELF will run on.

Awesome, thanks for this. Off to build new Ansible deployment scripts for aarch64!

Yes, think AMD vs Intel. Same x86 target but built differently under the hood with potential to optimize for certain uses over others.

The house takes their cut whether or not an individual bet wins.

15 guns, and what do I get? [...] Sold my soul to the company habitat.

I think you haven't gone far enough. Most of this thread is rampant ignorance and propaganda influenced bandwagoning.

1) It's from a company known for dev boards and SoCs- not consumer products.

2) The code is available on GitHub (nice!)

3) SiSpeed actively contributes to the mainline linux kernel for RISC-V in general as well as their SoCs.

4) Security in Embedded Applications is just... Bad. Amercian, Chinese, European, Russian, Indian- it doesn't matter.

Also what do you really expect for 30€ or 60€ price point? On relatively low volume product. It even doing what is promised is already a good start to me. And that probably tells their priorities. Start from some already working image with wide support for features. And then add the features that are needed in specific use case. And then ship it.

No, We should be fighting tooth and nail against these companies. They're not here to save us from ourselves. They're using public streets to Alpha (beta if you want to be generous) test autonomous lethal weapons, and then profit off of it when it works.

I can't find anything saying waymo has a thermal camera. They aren't expensive- certainly not compared to the LIDAR- and provide extremely discriminated input on "am I about to kill something?" They're not perfect as foul weather and fog are likely to blind thermal- but they shouldn't be driving in suboptimal conditions until they have a track record of safety in optimal ones.

What criteria would you consider sufficient for deployment on public streets? My experience is that people opposed to AV technology usually aren't familiar with the level of validation that's been done and tend to have expectations that are either impossible or are already met.

Waymo has experimented with thermal imaging in the past. I've never seen experiments indicating it's a particularly valuable modality for AVs, and high resolution thermal cameras exceed the price of decent LIDAR these days. You can easily spend $10k+ on a FLIR sensor with a pixel count higher than 4 digits.

Waymo was started partly to save lives by Sebastian Thrun who lost a friend to a car accident when he was 18. They have about 1/3 the accident rate of human drivers. Calling this stuff evil is kind of sad.

> They're using public streets to Alpha (beta if you want to be generous) test autonomous lethal weapons, and then profit off of it when it works.

Sounds good? It’s exactly working as it should.

Considering that they're already safer than human drivers, I don't think you could say that they're the ones using the streets to learn.

Correct. It's rather routine for wafers manufactured for "last call" orders on ASICs exiting production to be stored as wafers due to not knowing how they need to be Packaged.

Let's not forget that if it's not illegal now, it could be illegal in a matter of days. Add 12 if a president decides to sit on their thumbs, it's happened before.