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LoTeK
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 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:17 pm Post subject: MIPS, OpenHardware, Laptop -> Gentoo |
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hi,
I'm thinking about buying another Yeelong lemote laptop because my old one is damaged. But it seems that http://www.lemote.com/en/ is outdated.
My question is if lemote laptops are the only openhardware laptops and if anyone know if there are more powerful netbooks/notebooks than the yeelong notebooks (those that you can find on the posted link).
But performance is not that important because it's for educational purposes. The only thing that really matters to me is that the machine consists of solely open- hardware, -firmware, -software.
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lkcl
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| Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: MIPS, OpenHardware, Laptop -> Gentoo |
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| LoTeK wrote: | hi,
I'm thinking about buying another Yeelong lemote laptop because my old one is damaged. But it seems that http://www.lemote.com/en/ is outdated.
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yeah it's a bugger. they don't really have access yet to 40nm or 28nm but even if they did, they'd use it to satisfy the ICT / Chinese Govt's need for a supercomputer, by pushing quad or 16 core in under 16 watt... *not* going for the consumer market with only 1W or less.
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My question is if lemote laptops are the only openhardware laptops and if anyone know if there are more powerful netbooks/notebooks than the yeelong notebooks (those that you can find on the posted link).
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there's a little PC using the same (or nearly) processor. you could look up the XCore86 - aka the rdc.com.tw IAD100HV - it ended up in a modular laptop called the Gecko Edubook: http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html
because it's only a 1ghz x86, i don't think it really became popular. but, there's no proprietary GPU, so it all "just pretty much works". support is in mainline linux kernel for the RDC IAD series of CPUs. i do have a 9in netbook sample kicking around, if you're interested in it - i don't use it (ok, i used it for about 2 weeks) and i dismantled it to take photos. it has ubuntu (*shudder*) on it - you can apparently boot straight from USB but i've never tried it, and documentation isn't exactly forthcoming [it was a GPL-violating sample]
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But performance is not that important because it's for educational purposes. The only thing that really matters to me is that the machine consists of solely open- hardware, -firmware, -software. |
i'm working on a decade-long roadmap to do exactly this. the first CPU Cards being developed are an A10 one, an iMX6 one and an Ingenic JZ4760 one. the JZ4760 one can only have 512mb of RAM, but it *is* FSF-Endorseable. the plan there is to gain an opportunity to talk to Ingenic and to ask them "for god's sake stop putting in proprietary GPUs into something that is otherwise entirely China home-grown, would be perfectly good *without* a proprietary GPU, would be lower-cost, and if you made it Quad-Core 1.5ghz with 4 X-Burst Vector Processors it would eat proprietary GPUs for breakfast".
but, to get there, i need to at least start with the JZ4760.
the first product being developed that will take EOMA-68 CPU Cards is codenamed the "Flying Squirrel". it's a 7in tablet with a 1024x600 IPS screen, for the KDE Plasma Team. the PCB for that however can be extended for use in anything up to an 10in laptop (as long as the screen is below about 1440x900 i.e. single LVDS).
so... yeah. long story, but for FSF-Endorseable options - which is what you're asking for - the number of choices is pretty low right now. i aim to change that.
l.
http://rhombus-tech.net/jz4760/news
http://rhombus-tech.net/freescale/iMX6/news
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news
http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/news/ |
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