[LinuxBIOS] olpc hardware openness

Rogelio Serrano rogelio.serrano at gmail.com
Sun May 13 07:17:43 CEST 2007


On 5/13/07, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/12/07, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How open is the olpc hardware?
>
> very, very open with outstanding vendor support.
>
> >
> > How easy was it to port linuxbios to it?
>
> The CPU was one of the hardest ports we've done, but with AMD helping,
> we got there. Without AMD, we would have been sunk.
>
> ron
>

cool! Now how do we get our hands on one?

Can somebody actually fabricate similar? Just a motherboard with dumb
a video framebuffer.

I have given up on the pc. And i intend to focus all my resources on
an alternative.




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