Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook

Assassink

Hi Everyone

i'm a member of Powerpc notebook Group
We have aim to produce Notebook that uses Power ISA CPU

The notebok can run Free/Net/OpenBSD using U-Boot

You can visit our Website https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/

We are Innovating and would like to have volunteer for this project

Any issue, you can ask on forum https://forum.powerpc-notebook.org/index.php

Any comments are most welcome

JuvenalUrbino

Assassink I remember following this project in its early days. Oddly enough, I was rethinking about it no more than few days ago and told myself "wondering if it's still alive...". And you brought it to light in the meantime. Congrats!

If I remember corrently, you were based in Italy, weren't you?
Anyway thanks for taking BSD in consideration.

nortonham

Assassink

What type of help do you need that volunteers could help with?

kc9udx

Get it to run Amiga 4.x and you've really got something 😁

Assassink

JuvenalUrbino
Yes, We are currently Italy based as of now, with members from all over the world

What type of help do you need that volunteers could help with? @nortonham

You can have look in this CE mark certification financed! New campaign for the software part and heat pipes

Assassink

There is call for make a new membership for 2023,
so if you like to subscribe the yearly membership for 2023, you can follow the instruction on page https://www.powerprogress.org/en/membership/

Assassink

Assassink
there is Important update

When is it done?
How much will it cost?
Will it run FreeBSD?

The date is not already defined, depend how long will go working with u-boot and complete to collect the donations from latest donation campaign, we suppose that ACube may start pre-orders before the end of the 2023.
The price is not already defined until all the needed test and certification will be complete , even if is in relation to the cost in the market of microchip that for some important component we have changes very much during last two year. In any case will be quite expensive due to the limited production, for the cost of the MXM Video card itslef, and the production of the motherboard in Italy.
It has run FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD as we are using U-Boot for the development of AMD/ATI Radeon Driver and create a custom version of it for compilation

Important clarification: The Association Power Progress Community doesn't produce the notebook, will be produced by ACube Systems

JuvenalUrbino

Assassink I decided to finance the project 😉