On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > > > I'm not an EE, or a CS guy. I have *NO* idea how to redesign this board > > so as to cram it into a laptop. (I am not worried in the least about > > processor heat; just gonna have to deal with it. Dissipate with a diff > > heatsink or something.) Anyone know of any companies that're working on > > this already? Or know enough about this stuff to assist in the work? > > Thanks. > > I think trying to cut down an ATX board to notebook size would be harder > (or at least as hard) as designing your own board. In fact, this might > not be too hard (if you have some good EE guys) and a good deal of > knowledge. Be manage to make a mobo so... I think using the IBM stuff as > a referance and doing a new board might be easier. But I'm no EE guy > myself.
The interesting thing I find in the whole "opening the hardware" thing is that IBM has had an open CHRP design in the Longtrail available for anybody to do a run and I think it's only been two vendors who bothered to make a limited run of the boards. You Longtrail folks out there can correct me... :) Oh, and Mot. SPS has had a Yellowknife reference design (and eval boards of the design) available for a long time with nobody jumping on it. That's a CHRP design w/ a 750. The difference is that IBM is making a PR event out of it and is willing to throw a little money at making some relationships with manufacturers, I suppose. Sounds good to me... With LinuxPPC, Inc.'s latest press release, sounds like the production of these boards is a done deal. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
