• Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Raf_MegaByte
    Posts: 430 from 2004/10/10
    From: Nella grande r...
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > we amigans can ask him to keep room on the motherboard for open-smart firmware chip...

    What for?


    In the beginning I believed they want to use EFI firmware that actually is not compatible with any Amiga-Like Operating System.

    As long I read specs, this laptop will run with U-Boot that is good for AmigaOS only.

    MorphOS instead uses Open-smart firmware to run and if I remeber well chip used for Open-Firmware is twice big as U-Boot. Am I wrong?

    Quote:


    > as being open source hardware

    "The design at this stage is not open but we accept suggestions…"
    http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/


    In some docs they say they "intended" to open it... In the faq you pointed they say they are "considering" to but project is not open.

    I hope it will not end in opening the project in the same way that Genesi promised with Pegasos II motherboard, when they disclosed pratically nothing...


    [ Edited by Raf_MegaByte 07.11.2014 - 14:52 ]
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