BUILD WITH US THE FIRST PowerPC OPEN SOURCE NOTEBOOK
Who are we?
● We define ourselves as a Solidarity/Ethical/Passion driven community attorno a questo progetto e al Free Software e Hardware
● We are even a Tecnlogical Ethical Purchasing Group, in order to gather funds, design most of our laptop and run GNU/Linux on it
● We promote a Positive and Humane relationship between collaborators
Ready to switch to GNU/Linux PowerPC notebooks
WHY TODAY IS POSSIBLE?
The World is changed
● The game has changed, now GNU/Linux is everywhere running on every CPU architectures and devices
● It's the right time to make new choices, a new PowerPC Notebook designed around GNU/Linux, make it happen!
The Streeght of Relationships
● Mettendo relazione diretta con ogni persona che si è iscritta lalla newsletter del nostro sito, è nata una relazione umana di collaborazione.
● After 1 year from we have met the first interested to the project, today contribute to our project many peoples from different countries.
● Now we have 320 subscribers to our newsletter
● 120 collaborations and suggestions surveys compiled
● 50 collaborators (translation, software, etc)
● Our website is localized in 7 languages and we a forum
http://www.powerpc-notebook.org
Website 7 Languages: English – French – Spanish – German – Poland – Portuguese - Italian
http://forum.powerpc-notebook.org/
Actions Done
● Direct single and group relationship with all the potential collaborators
● Website localization in 7 languages
● forum/website management
● Periodic Newsletter
● Searching of Chassis Notebook suppliers and others altenative solutions
● Tryed many synergies with other projects or producers
● Preparation of Debian 64 bit powerpc installation image
● Collaboration with Freescale/NXP that support us with a devkit RDB2080 and uboot modification for pci-e video cards
Freescale/NXP Support
● Freescale/NXP have loaned us RDB2080 devkit based on the same e6500 core of our notebook, to help us to testDebian GNU/Linux 64 bit powerpc and video cards
History of CPU
Cpu Architectures in time Instruction set Bits Introduced Alpha 64 1992 ARM 32 1983 ARMv8-A 64/32 2011[2] AVR32 32 2006 Blackfin 32 2000 DLX 32 1990 eSi-RISC 16/32 2009 Itanium (IA-64) 64 2001 M32R 32 1997 Motorola 68k 32 1979 Mico32 32 2006 MIPS 64 (32→64) 1981 MMIX 64 1999 6502 8 1975 65k 64 (8→64)[8] 2006? NS320xx 32 1982 PA-RISC (HP/PA) 64 (32→64) 1986 PowerPC 32/64 (32→64) 1991 S+core 16/32 2005 SPARC 64 (32→64) 1985 SuperH (SH) 32 1990s System/360 / System/370 / z/Architecture64 (32→64) 1964 VAX 32 1977 x86 32 (16→32) 1978 x86-64 64 (32→64) 2003 Z80 8 1976 Xilinx 4→48→56 2005 Crusoe 32 2000 Mainstream processor family current Mainstream: ●ARM ●MIPS ●Power Architecture (Power - PowerPC) ●X86 ●Sparc CPU with many (proprietary) applications force to keep compatibility into new CPUs. Windows was born and grown on x86. Used by everyone, it also forced to keep compatibility when going to new CPUs.
PowerPC/Power history
● 1991 Created by AIM (Apple IBM Motorola) (mix some drawn back compatibility between IBM Power e Motorola 88000) 1993 PowerPC 601
● 1997 G3 Freescale/IBM , Gekko (IBM) Nintendo GameCube
● 1999 G4 Freescale ● 2004 MPC 7447A ( variante G4 Freescale)
● 2003 G5 64bit (IBM)
● 2006 BroadWay IBM (64 bit) Nintendo Wii
● 2006 Cell 64bit ( 64 bit) Sony Playstation 3
● 2007 PWRficient PA6T (64bit) ● 2010 e5500 core (64 bit) Freescale
● 2012 Expresso (64 bit) IBM Nintendo Wii U
● 2012 e6500 core (64 bit) Freescale
● 2014 Power 8 - OpenPower
Proprietary Software Limit CPU innovation ● 1993 Windows 25 million licenses (X86)
● 1993 PowerPC 601 released
● 1994 first Apple computer with PowerPC PowerPC is released without software compiled for it: OS and previous applications was running on 386 or Motorola 68000. When Apple created PowerPC they were running parts of Mac OS written for 68k, under emulation on the PowerPC.
Proprietary OS? NO PARTY ● 1995 Windows NT 3.51/4.0 PowerPC dropped in 1996
● 1995 Os/2 Warp, PowerPC edition
● 1995 Solaris 2.51 for PowerPC
PowerPC games console Gen Manufact On the Name Image erati CPU Clock RAM No. sold urer market on
Apple Bandai Pippin 5:th PowerPC 603 66 MHz 6 MB 1995 - 1997 42.000 Katz Media
1997 3DO 2× M2 5:th 2× PowerPC 602 8 MB Never none Panasonic 66 MHz marketed
GameCub 21.74 Nintendo 6:th Gekko 486 MHz 24 MB 2001 - 2007 e million
77.2 XCPU (Xbox 360) 512 2005 - million Xbox 360 Microsoft 7:th XCGPU (Xbox 3.2 GHz MB present March 360 S) 2013
99.8 2006 - million Wii Nintendo 7:th Broadway 729 MHz 64 MB present March 2013
78.4 PlayStatio 256 2006 - Sony 7:th Cell B.E. 3.2 GHz million n 3 MB present May 2013
3.45 1.24 GH 2012 - million Wii U Nintendo 8:th Espresso 2 GB z present March 2013 Game Consoles processors
● PS2 MIPS ● Ms Xbox x86
● PS3 PowerPC ● Ms Xbox 360 PowerPC
● PS4 x86_64 ● Ms Xbox One X86_64
● Nintendo N64 MIPS ●
● Nintendo GameCube PowerPC ● PSP MIPS
● Nintendo Wii/WiiU PowerPC ● PSP VITA ARM
Consoles have a tiny OS with few embedded applications
Games are written from scratch or are developed on cross-architecture engines. CPU change affects them less.
POWER/PowerPC IS AN ACTIVE ARCHITECTURE
● In 2013 was founded the OpenPower Foundation, are part of about 150 members, including companies, universities and individuals, with hundreds of projects, it is an open technical community, they have created an open ecosystem for the POWER architecture.
NXP ( was Freescale)
● NXP have an active Roadmap based on Power architecture ● May 2016 new T4xx1 low-power e6500 core processors
● On 2017 will go in production Power at 16nm
● new processors scheduled between 2017 and 2018
QorIQ Multicore Communications Processor Solution Roadmap
Free Software: ANY CPU
● "Free software" means software that respects users' freedom and community.
● Users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, "free software" means liberty, not "software at no price".
● Gnu/Linux is free software → you can view ,change and recompile the sources for many different CPUs
● It is possible to run the same programs recompiled for different CPUs.
● You can easily change the CPU architecture
minor Obsolescence
● Video driver open source now are supported from ATI and NVIDIA. ● Open Source support continue in times more tha proprietary support
● Minor obsolescence of technology product
PowerPC Desktop/embedded
● Amiga One X1000 X5000 A-Eon
● Amiga One 500 Acube Systems
Power Micro/Servers/Workstation
Our PowerPC Notebook
● CPU 64 bit PowerPC core e6500 multi-tread, multi- core AltiVec acceleration with 16 Gflops per core
● video card MXM ( upgradable )
● USB 2 and USB3 ports
● SATA
● RAM DDR3L, upgradable
● HD/SSD 2.5'', upgradable
● Standard notebook case 15,6''
Open Source Hardware
1 year ago at the Linux Day 2014 we have received a proposal: why not make the Open Source Hardware laptop?
● The manufacturer will make designs and will make the prototypes under Open Source license Hardware !!!!
● From us “Technology Purchase Solidarity Group” depends make the crowdfunding
Crowdfunding Campain
● Step 1: Spread massive project ● Step 2: Informal membership Campain
● Step 3: Prototype Fundraising
● Step 4: Designs and test prototypes updates
● Step 5: Fundraising notebook production
1:How to help us
● Tanslate: our site, social media page, applications...
● Spread the news: publish news about our project in your blog, forum, social network page, manage our website, communicate with our followers...
● Be Creative: design/create media to promote ourproject (videos, pictures, animations, presentations...)
● Join the Software Workgroup: develop, test, fix, optimize PowerPC GNU/Linux applications, help porting other Operating Systems. 2:How to help us
● Join the Hardware Workgroup: help us finding a chassis (case) supplier, select components, collaborate with the producer, develop drivers...
● buying groups: enable buying groups also involving foundations, schools, universities, companies; study other experiences of technological success buying groups.
● Manage the Crowdfunding campaign: prepare, launch and manage the campain.
1:Software Group Activites
Test Debian Powerpc 64 bit ● Get a G5 ( powerpc 64 bit)
● Install powerpc 32 bit unstable http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/unstable/cu rrent/powerpc/iso-cd/ ● Chroot 64 bit https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64 ● Test packages
PowerPC console Virtualization
● Wii/WiiU:Dolphin https://it.dolphin-emu.org/?cr=it ● Xbox360 https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
● PS3 https://github.com/DHrpcs3/rpcs3 They must be recompiled on Power and removed emulation