Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Open source PPC laptop bounty  (Read 8366 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline polyp2000

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 277
    • Show all replies
    • https://soundcloud.com/polyp/sets/polyp-2013
Re: Open source PPC laptop bounty
« on: June 26, 2017, 09:53:37 AM »
Quote from: amir_amd;827573
CPU: NXP T208x, e6500 64-bit Power Architecture with Altivec technology
4 x e6500 dual-threaded cores, low-latency backside 2MB L2 cache, 16GFLOPS x core
RAM: 2 x RAM slots for DDR3L SO-DIMM
VIDEO: Radeon HD
AUDIO: sound chip, audio in and audio out jacks
USB: 3.0 and 2.0 ports
STORAGE:
NVM Express (NVMe), M.2 2280 connector
2 x SATA
1 x SDHC card reader
NETWORK:
1 x ethernet RJ-45 connector
WiFi connectivity
Bluetooth connectivity
POWER: on-board battery charger and power-management
CHASSIS: standard notebook case 15,6"


Will it run AOS 4.x ?
Not much point for me otherwise.

Offline polyp2000

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 277
    • Show all replies
    • https://soundcloud.com/polyp/sets/polyp-2013
Re: Open source PPC laptop bounty
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2017, 02:40:54 PM »
Quote from: amir_amd;827573
CPU: NXP T208x, e6500 64-bit Power Architecture with Altivec technology
4 x e6500 dual-threaded cores, low-latency backside 2MB L2 cache, 16GFLOPS x core
RAM: 2 x RAM slots for DDR3L SO-DIMM
VIDEO: Radeon HD
AUDIO: sound chip, audio in and audio out jacks
USB: 3.0 and 2.0 ports
STORAGE:
NVM Express (NVMe), M.2 2280 connector
2 x SATA
1 x SDHC card reader
NETWORK:
1 x ethernet RJ-45 connector
WiFi connectivity
Bluetooth connectivity
POWER: on-board battery charger and power-management
CHASSIS: standard notebook case 15,6"



Given that this is supposed to be an "open source" laptop how did you manage to get licenses to use Radeon and PPC/Altivec ? Last time i checked these were proprietary. If the only open source component is Linux , whats the point ? might as well stick with Intel , which also runs Linux ? This sounds like making a rod for your own back.

Offline polyp2000

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 277
    • Show all replies
    • https://soundcloud.com/polyp/sets/polyp-2013
Re: Open source PPC laptop bounty
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2017, 06:23:26 PM »
Quote from: nicholas;827627
Since when has anyone needed a "licence" to buy an IC and use it?


I think you are missing the point . The architecture of the chips is not open. Can you supply complete schematics for the GPU and CPU? I think not.