Open source PPC laptop bounty

[billt]

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe I'm missing something but why do we want a Opensource PPC laptop? How is this an OpenSource PPC Laptop? Just because it runs Linux doesn't make it an OpenSource laptop in the way you are using the term.

This seems fraught with issues.

From our point of view, a lot of us probably dont care if the laptop is open source or not. Thats not the detail I am interested in. It would be neat to have schematics and layout files for it, but not my primary interest. That is one of their goals, which makes their usage of the term appropriate. Hopefully they can achieve that goal part of their goal, but if something they really cant do without sticks them with an NDA, and breaks their open design files plan, then that doesnt ruin my day so much...

What some of us here would be interested in is a PowerPC laptop that OS4 could be ported to run on. Thats my only interest.

[billt]

Just so we are clear, this is a bounty for an as yet unbuilt low power Linux box... I already have of of those (several in fact), it's called a Raspberry Pi. What does this bring to the table?

I have 2 or 3 pi's ad well. They are not laptops, and they do not run OS4. And there woukd be a lot more to do to fix either of those two weaknesses than with this poc laptop project. Sorry, but I dont even understand the comparison on context of potential laptip for Amigaos...

[billt]

It's only a matter of time before UAE pass through drivers are made for those things.?

I would really love to see Qemu's PCI-passthrough, VirtIO and SoC-Passthrough capabilities come to UAE. That would help with new hardware drivers before we could plug said hardware into an AmigaOS-native platform... Including stuff inside t2080, outside of t2080 in this laptop, or in Rpi, etc...

[billt]

I've just received word from Roberto Innocenti that they don't want to promise the incorporation of an MXM card in production models yet.
But as plans for the prototypes currently calls for the gpu not to be incorporated onto the motherboard, a solution like that seems a strong possibility.

I think the choice is either mxm-3 or solder gpu directly on motherboard. There are only a couple laptops doing mxm these days, so not a lot of variety in chassis selectiom to use mxm card, but mxm is preferable to decrease motherboard design and test effort, and gpu tech info is likely only by nda, so mxm slot is preferable for open design motherboard goal.