On 4/13/20 6:11 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
Zlatan Todorić wrote:
I am wondering are people aware of the effort to create a POWER based
laptop with open schematics.
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/campaigns/donation-campaign-for-pcb-design-of-the-powerpc-notebook-motherboard/
I think it is quite an interesting fit and we could likely help them
either via donations, or suggestions or even code/hardware design itself.
Just wanted to share to list if anyone finds it interesting, I have some
contacts with them but I am not involved in any capacity.
I do know well, being part of the team. Other members are in this
mailing list too - the main reason is that currently we have choosen
Debian as reference distribution and it is running on our "Dev Kit"
Thus is why we need "this" community so much, advacenments and fixes in
Debian are meaningful - every work of Adrian helps us too. Fixes in
MariaDB, git, svn, ssl - are important to keep things running.
Software is important, or the Laptop will not be functional. Debian is
some sort of "refererence" and we need to keep it supporting PPC32 and
PPC64, the same goes for GCC!
That is why help with ArcticFox is needed too.
From what I hear there is help needed on GRUB.
I am going to do a re-install again on an old G5 and see if I can at
least get the sources and see what the issue is with grub. Seems to be
just openfirmware pathname issues in that Apple does strange things on
their firmware. I have no idea of this issue exists on anything else
but the rumours are that IBM Power equipment "just works".
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
