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- ... so upDate...
- 3 prototypes are made, some test signaling allready done...:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20221214223221/https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2022/12/prototypes-produced-lets-go-on-hardware-tests/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230320052351/https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2023/02/prototypes-testing-results/
- https://hackaday.com/2022/12/09/an-open-source-powerpc-notebook-edges-closer/
- ... on aboveMentioned pri$€: as a notForProfit Foundation, we don"t make a Product,
- but do a Project; high probability that Product will be done by our 1.st outSourcer
- aCube from Italy (preOrdering, not crowdSourcing), case by 2.nd outSourcer SlimBook
- Spain (Eclipse model); some stuff they outSource to China further in the line...so
- we initially projected the Zone of 6oo - 8oo €u, correcting that later to 1ooo €u,
- but some components got increase in cost even like +3000% :-O , so that target is now,
- 2023/3 questionable... we even had to lower 5 to 3 prototypes...
- ...we just had maybe even 60-&-some-th colaboration IRC chat on our now
- "PowerBoard Tyche" PowerPC/Power8 notebook... :-) 🐧
- Topics planned were...of which we managed to grasp first two...rest next time...:
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- 1. Gnu uBoot firmware / deviceTree progress upDate
- 2. CPLD progress upDate
- 3. Components upDate
- 4. Miscelenious:
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- a) proposal of Valve (?) guy for porting valwe goldSource
- HalfLife engine; idea for SteamOS (Debian Gnu, Arch) PPC64 endianBig
- (AltiVecTorUnit / VelocityEngine supp) In multiBoot on notebook, with
- AmigaOS 4.1 finEd, MorphOS 3.17, ArOS 2.3 ; snapShop from
- PowerProgressCommunity Discord
- https://pastebin.com/8D5DAhL8
- The rest of talk at Discord
- b) possibility of bringing PowerBoard Tyche prototypes to Dors Cluc Linux
- Convention on booth / stand in May + possible lecture of it in May 11.th - 12.th
- https://www.dorscluc.org/
- https://www.dorscluc.org/category/news/
- c) AmigaEvent38 october 7.th 2023 ?
- http://amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2023-03-00028-DE.html
- d) Riccardo Sw thread: ArcticFox fork PaleMoon last nonRust FireFox 52
- & rest of bigEndian builds for MacPPC, LinuxPPC, bsdPPC, AmigaPPC (?)
- *****************************************************************************
- some history...:
- yeah, the Journey was hellOfaRide, when Roberto Inocenti put first article on his
- Delirio Tecnologico Blog ... & started OSHW avalanche… i think in 2014... :)
- http://deliriotecnologico.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2015-03-13T10:06:00%2B01:00&max-results=8&start=10&by-date=false
- so roughly, idea 2014, Project in 2015 started & Power Progress Community nonProfit Foundation
- in 2016 (which later beCame memeber of OpenPower, which with The Linux Foundation owns
- Open Sourced PowerPC/Power PowerISA Patent Rights now)...
- a lot of history & clarification is covered in these presentations, from many FreeLibreOpen SW HW & AmigaOne (read Power6 & 7, we build Power8) events…:
- https://www.youtube.com/@PowerProgressCommunity
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230307113853/https://www.powerprogress.org/en/
- …allthough, in early stage, we considered Dome ddrFormFactor serverOnChip SoC of bigBlue
- (which is used in sqareKilometerArray of radioTelescopes), as a "PPC Foundation" for our mobo,
- we choosed aCube (besides A-Eon, one of 2 firms that build Power6 & 7 AmigaOnes, as well
- as PPC SOCs), as our main outSourcer & builder, so the notebook will be quadC0re,
- octaThread, & capable of both endianess, as all Power7+,8,9 & beyond ISAs CPU archs,
- & support AltiVec(tor) Unit / Velocity Engine, so VMX VSX is available, but only in eg.
- Debian GNU/LinuxPPC64 endianBig byteOrdering scheme (older, & onlyOne possible on Power7 &
- beLow, 6, G5 (64bit), G4 (which is present in 1.st iterations of AmigaOne hw also, later
- A-One hw ending in Power6 & 7)
- intelByteOrdering is more atractive for c0ders & developers / testers, coz sourceC0de needs
- little to none intervention, due to fact that it is primarily targeted to x86 ISA CPU arch
- interestingly, Intel added 512 bit vector unit 26 years late :)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec
- the problem we are now facing, after not the LibreBoot, not C0reBoot, but Gnu uBoot
- firmware & deviceTree will be written, is that Debian in Rel 9 ditched endianBig from
- Stable Release, & Debian 10 Buster egzists only in endianLittle / intelByteOrdering for
- PPC64, rendering AltiVecTor Unit / VelocityEngine unUsable, coz same register set is
- used for byteOrder mangling… :/
- https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
- regarding OS-es & userLand apps, there are some ideas to crossPort all popular enthusiastic
- Platforms as well, like AmigaOS 4.1 upDate 6 / FinalEdition EnhancSw, MorphOS 3.17, ArOS 2.3,
- variuous system5 (openSolaris, indiana, illumos) & bsd unixes like Net, Open & FreeBSD, MacOS X
- OpenDarwin (Fink apt dpkg port is cool), realTime OS-es, egzotics like Haiku OpenBeOS/Zeta
- (which initially was made for PPC),... why not Atari FreeMiNT (Floss & bsd based GEM/TOS) :) 🐧
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201020084628/https://forum.powerpc-notebook.org/index.php?board=6.0
- in development we used YoctoLinux & LinuxFromScratch recepies, but main development
- platform is Debian GNU/LinuxPPC64 endianBig... while voidPPC & Gentoo, Arch are bocoming
- more & temptiing, regardless of endianess / byteOrdering :)
- https://voidlinux-ppc.org/
- http://vivapowerpc.eu/20210208-1330_Gentoo_installation_on_ppc64le
- typeUp
- dGs
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