[Libre-soc-dev] maybe get ryzen 7950x for faster compilation and avx512

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 14:18 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

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> On Monday, October 31, 2022, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > I ended up buying a Ryzen 7950X and an AM5 motherboard and 64GB of DDR5
> and a better heatsink. it cost me USD $1,355.45 (including sales tax).
> > Luke, can we decide if Libre-SOC wants to pay for any of that?
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> discussing that *before* spending the money is generally
> adviseable!
>

I did, that's what this whole email thread is:
https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2022-September/005306.html

also, I would have bought it even if Libre-SOC decided not to pay for any
of it.

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> but yes i see no reason why not.
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Thanks! How much do you think Libre-SOC should pay? I'll create a bug for
it later (assuming someone else doesn't get to it first).

Jacob