Joerg Schilling wrote: >Hi all, > >I did just have a very interesting discussion with a Chipdesigner from Berlin. >He is interested in working on a complete OpenSource platform and he is looking >for people who are interested in helping with this project. > >His current idea is to take parts from the T1000 design and to create a design >that is impementing CMT but only in 32 bit to make it fit into a gate array. > >The complete project would need to do the following: > >- Implement the CPU as Flash image for the gate array > >- Test the functionality in similation mode before checking real HW. > >- Developing a motherboard > >- Developing a IEEE-1275 Boot Prom for this MB > >- Developing the needed low level code for OpenSolaris > >- Developing a completely free (open) Wlan chip > > >Everything would be completely OpenSource. The current plans woud result in >200 Euro for a sigle board. > >The person who did start this project, estimates the effort to develop the >CPU in verilog to be aprox. 1 man year. This is too much for him as he is >working as a freelancer for his life. > >Is there interest in this project? > >We could try to bring the interested people together at OSDEVCON in Berlin. > > >If there is interest, I would connect him to this list and give more >information (e.g. the expected speed for the CPU and the expected power >consumption). > >Jörg > > >
+1 Sounds _very_ interesting. But I have to admit, that I'm not totally sure, if I'm already qualified enough. Lack of time would be the next problem. Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
