Power8 Notebook upDate 2023 amigaWorldNet v02

... so upDate... on our say AmigaOne x8000/40 Power8 or say PowerBook G9 :)

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/Funding), notebook case by 2.nd outSourcer
SlimBook Spain (Eclipse model); some stuff they outSource even 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 rather questionable... we even had to lower 5 to 3 prototypes...

...we just had maybe even 60-&-some-th colaboration IRC chat meeting, on our now
"PowerBoard Tyche" PowerPC/Power8 notebook... :-) 🐧

Topics planned were...of which we managed to grasp mabe 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:
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 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 (?)
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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 even "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), G3 (Atari RioRed Dream), G2 (legendary Phase5 603e BlizzardPPC
 hybrid aSymetric multiProcesing: m68k-ppc32 contextSwitching)...

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 :)
ok, misUse of segmentationMechanism for memoryProtection/virtualisation is all the
Evil in the World :-O longLinear MMU flat memoryModel rULeZ \o/ & addsUp to better
c0deDensity... 🐧

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec

the problem we are now facing, after not the LibreBoot, not C0reBoot(ex linuxBios), 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), Redox... why not Atari FreeMiNT (Floss & bsd based GEM/TOS
 hybrid) :) 🐧

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 FieniX, voidPPC, deVUAn fork,  Gentoo,
Arch are becoming more & more temptiing, regardless of endianess / byteOrdering :)
if we don"t sucseed to return PPC64EB to Debian Gnu, we will probably maintain our own fork/
port/spin...  consolidation of developers time, is also an important aspect...

https://voidlinux-ppc.org/

http://vivapowerpc.eu/20210208-1330_Gentoo_installation_on_ppc64le

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