Hello
The Lemote Netbook is great, got mine some month ago. And the progress
of OpenBSD development for it is impressive (as usual). The only
disadvantage are the graphical browsers wich keep crashing. But links -g
works for most stuff.
Greetings and thanks to the developers
Wolf
On 05/19/11 12:44, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
Hello
Just received a Lemote Leeyong 8101B (the 10 inches display model).
I took pictures of the machine from all sides + a few with a
centimeters/inches ruler for people interested by this machine.
OpenBSD support page for the platform :
http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html
If you do not know anything about it, it's a netbook that is powered by
a Loongson (chinese) MIPS-III chip (it has some MIPS-IV operands I
think, from a PDF I downloaded that covers its chip available operands).
The machine is fully open about it's hardware : no binary blob is used
for anything and the BIOS is PMON, a C-written BIOS (Miod says it's crap
so it probably is).
Weak point of the machine would be autonomy : battery is light and
small, is rated for 23 W/h of power (fully charged I get 25 W/h from
it). SD model uses 12 W/h and hard-disk model uses 15 W/h so it gives
you 1.5 hour of autonomy under load (might get near 2h if not loaded too
much but don't hope too much for it).
The machine is loaded with a Linux (I did not power it yet).
Here are the pictures :
https://picasaweb.google.com/gilboooo/LemoteLeeyong8101_B#
If you want some specific pictures, close ups of some parts, please
email me.
I am going to install OpenBSD using Miod's doc and document each part of
it with pictures so the whole process for total noobs can be used.
I think this machine is the only machine currently used by Richard
Stallman because of its open hardware approach. While Theo is loading
his shotgun with salt to take care of me for saying that, please check
the pictures and consider it. It's MIPS, it runs OpenBSD, and it works
without any binary blob (it also has two stereo speakers on front if you
like to listen to music while coding ! Very nice !)
Greeting to Miod for his work on the platform, but also Jasper Lievisse,
Adriaanse for allowing us to be able to use this very nice platform
on OpenBSD. Your beers are waiting for you, all expenses covered by me.
