Re: A proposal and a challenge

2015-12-11 Thread Team Open Source PowerPC Notebook project
Dear Joe, I thank you to have contacted our team of Open Source PowerPC Notebook project, we have chosen the NXP (Freescale) e6500 core Power Architecture processor for our Notebook, few hundreds of people are already involved in some way in our project, in case you and the others people in the

Re: A proposal and a challenge

2015-12-03 Thread Nemo
On 2 December 2015 at 12:39, Joe Nosay wrote (in part): > The problem is convincing IBM to publicly open the CPU for a good purpose. OpenPower, perhaps? N.

Re: A proposal and a challenge

2015-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know that everyone is familiar with the one laptop per child program; and, that is good. Really? Poor children, make them poorer.

Re: A proposal and a challenge

2015-12-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:39:00PM -0500, Joe Nosay wrote: > I know that everyone is familiar with the one laptop per child program; > and, that is good. Let's take it one step further. The debian team wants to > build a powerpc laptop. FreeBSD is working on the POWER8 with the PPC team. > The prob

A proposal and a challenge

2015-12-02 Thread Joe Nosay
I know that everyone is familiar with the one laptop per child program; and, that is good. Let's take it one step further. The debian team wants to build a powerpc laptop. FreeBSD is working on the POWER8 with the PPC team. The problem is convincing IBM to publicly open the CPU for a good purpose.